Boots to ban plastic bags and switch to brown paper carriers
by Julia Kollewe and Rebecca Smithers from Environment | The Guardian on (#4HT1J)
Chain will charge 5p, 7p or 10p for various sizes of paper bag, with profits going to charity
Boots will phase out all plastic bags from its stores by 2020, replacing them with brown paper bags.
The health and beauty chain will remove 40m plastic bags a year from use, amounting to more than 900 tonnes of single-use plastic.
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