To: All Scots who travel back and forth across the national border
Repatriate UK plastic bags to Scotland
This campaign has ended.
Bring as many free plastic bags home as you can.
Why is this important?
Scots have exercised their devolved powers to help save the planet. To restrict the energy and resources required to make millions of plastic bags every year and to help us all stop polluting the planet by dumping plastic in landfill sites, the Scottish Government has introduced a compulsory charge of 5p per bag. This is not a tax, The money goes to the shops and supermarkets who sell you the bag and the VAT goes into the Westminster treasury. It is estimated that £9million per year could flow south to the UK treasury from this tax alone. There is no compulsory bag compulsory charge in England.
Scots need to stop these subsidy junkies in England bleeding this country dry of our wealth, talent and resources.
To redress this subsidy imbalance I propose that all Scots working or living in England who travel north across the border should repatriate as many free English plastic bags home to Scotland as they can each trip so we can re-use and recycle them as required.
Scots need to stop these subsidy junkies in England bleeding this country dry of our wealth, talent and resources.
To redress this subsidy imbalance I propose that all Scots working or living in England who travel north across the border should repatriate as many free English plastic bags home to Scotland as they can each trip so we can re-use and recycle them as required.
