The amount of the nylon shopping bags halved in a two year period

With the assistance of seven leading UK retail chains, including Tesco, Asda and J Sainsbury, in Great Britain, the number of nylon shopping bags in May halved, compared to the datas of 2006 May.

The retailers have signed a voluntary agreement in 2008 with the government, to halve the amount of nylon shopping bags. The results of the latest survey shows that the stores almost reached their objective, since May this year with a total of 372 million bags were sold to the customers which is a 48 percent reduction compared to the 718 million pieces of the same period of 2006. The Minister for the Environment welcomed the results, pointing out that significant savings can be achieved because there’s no need to collect and recycle those shopping bags – reports Bloomberg.