Facts about supermarket carrier bags

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The litter argument

There is no correlation between the number of bags used and the number that get littered. The number of littered bags depends on the number of thoughtless or careless people who discard them.
Carrier bags are NOT a significant cause of litter. According to Keep Britain Tidy’s Local Environment Quality Survey (LEQS) reports, supermarket carrier bags were present at only 4% of sites surveyed in 2010/11, down from 7% in 2003/04 – and therefore not present at 96% of sites....