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Environmental campaigners have called on the government to learn from its own successes after official figures showed the use of single-use supermarket plastic bags had fallen 98% since retailers in England began charging for them in 2015.

Annual distribution of plastic carrier bags by seven leading grocery chains plummeted from 7.6bn in 2014 to 133m last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said on Monday.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

With petrol you can always get a £500 banger, run it into the ground over the next year or two and repeat.

With electric it starts at about 5000-6000, and you'll be paying £500 a year just to rent the battery. It's the batteries that are going to keep that out of reach of the poorest.

[-] ChromeSkull@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Where are you getting this battery rental from? I only knew of Renault and the very first Nissan leafs that did battery lease.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

All the cheapest ones when I searched were Zoe's, presumably because of the battery lease not being included in the purchase price.

[-] midgephoto@photog.social 2 points 1 year ago

@Blackmist @ChromeSkull
Zoes have been around for a while.
Were the cheaper cars not the older ones?

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