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Single-use plastic carrier bags charge data for EnglandSingle use plastic carrier bags England 2016-17 to 2024-25 metadata and notes

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Single Use Plastic Carrier Bags, England data (2016 to 2017 to 2024 to 2025)
The datasets provide information submitted by retailers to government about their sales of single use plastic carrier bags in England for the years 2016 to 2017 to 2024 to 2025.
They include mandatory data on the number of single use carrier bags sold under the charge, gross proceeds, any costs and use of the net proceeds and voluntary data on any amounts donated and the type of good causes in receipt of any donations plus information on the number of paper bags or bags for life issued by retailers.
The datasets only include those retailers who have reported sales of single-use plastic carrier bags in the reporting periods. Those retailers who have not sold any single-use plastic carrier bags for the period are not included in the published datasets.
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