[eldoradude]

5p levy on plastic bags

Just another scam to generate cash to waste on crap.

[Teflonic]

This whole scheme is merely a double down on the recycling scam to keep people from looking too closely at it.

There are actual garbage inspectors over there that fine people for not separating recyclables properly - yet much of the plastic secretly ends up in landfills rather than recycled! Same happens here, the market for recycled plastic is limited and the process is not cost effective whatsoever requiring heavy government subsidies to keep the whole scam going. The majority of the plastic collected is just overflow that gets buried like the rest of the trash.