Should plastic bags be banned?

Charging consumers for using plastic bags should not result in profit for the supermarkets. Instead, any supermarkets who refuse to totally ban plastic bags, and charge their customers for using the bags (eg. 10p for bag), should be made to pay a fine to local governments. This revenue should then be used to repeal some of the damage supermarkets reap on the local economy, environment, and society.

If shops and supermarkets are to be encouraged to ban plastic bags then they may well need economic encouragement to do so. This may well be simply from not having to pay for buying the bags in the first place. Having the money paid for plastic bags going to anyone other than the supermarket that sells them would be complex and involve waste through bureauracy