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Leithers asked to boycott big shops and bag a green carrier

Dec. 4, 2006
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1798632006
BRIAN FERGUSON, Edinburgh Evening News, Scotland

A HIGH-PROFILE campaign is being mounted to persuade Leithers to shun supermarket giants like Tesco, back independent stores and boycott plastic bags. Thousands of cotton shopping bags are being distributed to local businesses in a bid to spread the word about Greener Leith...

Plastic bags in Scotland

Taysiders using 300 bags per person per year

29 November, 2006
http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2006/11/29/story9017966t0.shtm
Evening Telegraph, Dundee, Scotland

The average person in Tayside uses a staggering 300 shopping bags a year with most going to landfill after only one use. Figures release today, at the launch of a new campaign to reduce the amount of corporate and household waste, revealed the shocking extent of Tayside’s wasteful practices...