Letter: Time to charge for supermarket plastic bags

Letter: David Cameron is threatening the shops and supermarkets that if they don't reduce the number of plastic carrier bags given out he will bring in laws to force them.

It must be quite a cost to the shops to provide these bags. Surely the onus is on the customers, the lazy ones who don't care about pollution of the planet, the cruel death of animals, birds and fish, and the unsightly litter everywhere.

Successive governments bang on about the problem but have done nothing about it.

The simple solution is to follow the example of the Irish who put a charge of 15p on the bags.

Ron Jones

Oswestry