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The big 3 fast expanding, foreign, basic supermarkets, Aldi and Lidl (German) and Netto (Danish) are no guardians of the environment. In their favour though, as well as the fast no faff queues and the quality of some of the stuff (try Aldi's multigrain bread), they don't give away carrier bags. The carrier bag industry fears an Ireland style bag tax, especially as a similar bill for Scotland with cross-party support was unveiled in May 2005, and has put out, well, bags of propaganda. Try "... plastic carrier bags are not a significant component of litter in the UK, studies have shown that bags probably make up less than 1% of litter, and that cigarette butts are by far the highest proportion of litter." Then move on to carrierbagtax.com/ for some dubious stats which contradict what we see in Aldi's every day and what those with a long memory will recall from their youth: people taking a bag out with them when they go shopping.