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AUSTRALIAN RETAILERS SET TO OPPOSE PLASTIC BAG LEVY.
CANBERRA, Oct 1 Asia Pulse - Australian Retailers plan to oppose a government idea to impose a 25 cents levy on plastic bags at supermarket checkouts.
Supermarkets today dismissed the levy as the wrong solution to the problem of plastic bag litter.
Plastic rubbish has been estimated to kill more than 100,000 birds, whales, seals, and turtles worldwide every year.
An estimated 20 million Australians use six billion bags each year.
Small businesses and philanthropists have urged big retailers to show some environmental leadership and start charging customers 10 cents a bag.
In Ireland, a levy of 15 euro cents introduced last March, is believed to have encouraged more than 90 per cent of shoppers to use their own bags.
Greens Senator Bob Brown last week devised a bill to impose a 25 cent levy.
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