Shops warn ministers over bags-for-life charge plan
Retailers have warned Welsh ministers it would be "perverse" to extend the 5p charge on plastic bags to "bags-for-life" sold by major stores.
Ministers say use of plastic bags has dropped by 81% in supermarkets since the charge was introduced in 2011.
But they say some customers are buying bags-for-life and throwing them away or forgetting to re-use them.
The Welsh Retail Consortium said it was wrong to penalise customers for buying and using reusable bags.
Political correspondent Tomos Livingstone reports for Sunday Politics Wales.
24 Nov 2013
- From the section Wales