A Positive View

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Headline...."Supermarkets MISS target!"

The Government has threatened to ban free carriers unless supermarkets make progress in cutting the number through voluntary agreements.

Seven supermarket chains — Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Co-op, Marks & Spencer, Somerfield and Waitrose — signed an agreement last year committing them to cutting the number of bags by 50 per cent over the three years to May 2009.

This month they reported, via the Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap), the independent waste watchdog, that they had not met the target, collectively achieving a 48 per cent reduction from 870 million bags in May 2006 to 450 million in May 2009.

Oh! my "giddy aunt".....how close were they supposed to get to bloody 50%?

And why wasn't the target set at 40% or 45%?

Negative, negative all the time, ...if the headline had been "Supermarkets exceed target by 3%, do they think we would have all cut back on re-using bags?

Or could it be that the government wanted us to miss it so that they could bring in yet another BAN?

I'll say what they don't say....

"Well done everyone we've saved 420 Million Bags!"