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Morrisons to scrap bags for life in latest war on waste - new one will cost 30p instead

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Morrisons is planning to ditch its plastic “bags for life” in the latest war on waste. The supermarket giant said it's launching a new trial in eight stores from Monday - and will roll the initiative out to all 500 branches if successful.

The trial will begin in Yorkshire, Bristol, Abergavenny, Paisley and Cambridgeshire, it comes after it found bags for life are being used just once before being thrown away.

If the trial is popular, introducing paper bags only across all its 494 stores would save 90 million plastic bags being used annually, the equivalent of 3,510 tonnes of plastic per year, the company said.

The bags will cost the same as a plastic bag for life costs now, which was hiked up to 30p from 20p last year. Shoppers will still

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