Mersey Basin Campaign Blog

Latest news from the Green Team 2CV

The team left Belgrade on 27 July.  They have journeyed through Turkey into Azerbaijan.  On 31 July they reported that they were 4 hours from Baku.   They have travelled through temperatures of 42 degrees C (and remember this car has no air-conditioning). Mark has found out that the dates are incorrect on his visa and the car now has no lights.  But apart from that – everything’s absolutely fine!

(Hope Sammy the Salmon is ok in all that heat).  Well done Green Team – keep going.

Would you like there to be a tax on plastic carrier bags?

Green England are asking people to sign a petition to introduce a plastic carrier bag tax in Britain.

We use an average of 300 plastic bags every year.  Each bag lasts up to 400 years, spending the majority of that time in a landfill site.  Many are blown into the countryside.  Some find their way into rivers and spend years floating around in our seas and spoil beaches when they are washed up onto the strandline.

In Ireland, a tax of 15 cents per bag resulted in a 90% drop in plastic bag usage, and raised 3.5 million Euros which was spent on environmental projects.

Bangladesh & Mumbai have banned polythene bags altogether while Egypt and

Singapore are taking steps to discourage their use.

If you agree that a 10p tax (to be spent on environmental projects) should be introduced in Britain and you would like to sign the petition, please go to -

http://www.green-england.co.uk/plasticbagpetition .