PERHAPS this week’s Feedback ought to be subtitled “Fun with figures”, as all the stories feature numbers being used in what might charitably be described as original ways.
We start with the environment section of the website of the UK supermarket Somerfield, which tells us: “Shoppers in Britain are estimated to use up to 20 billion plastic bags a year, an average of 323 bags a year to each household, or enough to carpet the entire planet every six months. Somerfield distributes approximately 900 million degradable bags each year, making a huge difference to landfill sites throughout…
