GORDON Brown is likely to get Echo readers' backing if he goes ahead with plans to make throwaway plastic bag a thing of the past.

The PM is suggesting that retailers should get cash incentives to offer green alternatives to shoppers.

Campaigners hope his announcement will spell the end of the throwaway bag culture favoured by big chains and high street shops.

  • Sixty-two per cent of readers, who responded to a website poll, want a ban on free plastic bags. Some 316 people voted in four days.