Supermarkets hit back over government’s bag tax threat
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Loading ...Relations between the government and the UK’s leading supermarkets are in danger of deteriorating in the wake of the government’s threat to impose a tax on plastic bags.
According to reports in The Guardian newspaper, environment secretary Hilary Benn this week met with the bosses of a number of the UK’s leading supermarkets who expressed concern that the threat of a tax on plastic bags would undermine existing voluntary agreement to cut bag use.
Marks & Spencer’s Sir Stuart Rose, Tesco’s Sir Terry Leahy, Andy Bond of Asda and Justin King of Sainsbury’s joined bosses from Morrissons, Somerfield and the Co-op for the discussion, which one source said had turned into a “very heated debate”. Read more
Source: Business Green
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