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Twitter reacts to the 5p plastic bag charge

Brace yourselves – from today many shoppers in England will have to pay 5p for plastic carrier bags in a bid to slash the 7.6 billion handed out every year. Here’s how Twitter reacted.

There was CHAOS.

And business opportunities.

But mostly people were just checking that everyone was OK.

There were poems;

And warnings;

Plastic bag charges are the start of a brave new England. Let’s remember them fondly.