Banish The Bag Campaign

EDM number 2935 in 2010-12, proposed by Zac Goldsmith on 27/03/2012.
Categorised under the topics of Environmental protection and Waste management.

That this House welcomes the comments by the Prime Minister that `I am very concerned about the use of single-use carrier bags and the effect that they have on the environment'; further welcomes the Daily Mail's Banish the Bag campaign and the Greener upon Thames 2012 Plastic-Bag-Free Olympics campaign; calls on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to strengthen its London 2012 Sustainable Sourcing Code (Packaging Guidelines) so that its sponsors and suppliers will not provide single-use or short-life disposable plastic bags to visitors to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; and further calls on the Government to bring forward enabling legislation whereby a charge would be imposed on single-use plastic bags.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.