Mark H Durkan plastic bag levy increase dropped
The Department of the Environment (DoE) has announced that the plastic bag tax will not increase as planned.
Minister Mark H Durkan's department had previously proposed increasing the levy from 5p to 10p from April 2014.
However, Mr Durkan said provisional figures showing a large reduction in single use bag numbers had convinced him to drop the planned increase.
Mark Simpson reports.
09 Sep 2013
- From the section Northern Ireland