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West End Extra - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 7 March 2008

In praise of the plastic carrier bag

• PLASTIC carrier bags are getting a very bad press. Even our Prime Minister has joined the bandwagon to ban them, as has M&S.
I myself like them. I find them enormously useful.
When paper bags came in there was a movement to ban them too.
The problem is surely simply that our government has failed to make any arrangement at all to recycle them. There’s the rub. I’m landed with hundreds of them, which I have carefully collected for reuse, only to find that nobody wants them, and there’s nowhere to take them for melting down. So I am landed with them littering up valuable space in my miniature flat. Blame poor government, not naughty bags...
PETER ZANDER
Romilly Street, W1

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, West End Extra, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@westendextra.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number.
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