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Shoppers will have to provide their own bags - or ferry their order out to the car piece by piece.

The two-week bag ban at Waitrose in Saffron Walden, Essex, follows a survey showing 90 per cent of customers in the town backed the idea.

Waitrose is also running an experiment at another 14 branches, where some tills will have no plastic bags on offer.

The company has been giving away reusable 'bags for life', which normally cost 10p, ahead of the trials.

The move comes as supermarkets battle for the 'green' high ground.

Stores currently hand out 13 billion carrier bags a year, most of which end up in landfills where they can take more than 100 years to decay.

Asda is holding a ten-week trial of bag-free checkouts, giving shoppers who use them vouchers as a reward.

Tesco is cutting its use of plastic bags by a quarter over two years, with incentives for shoppers to reuse bags.

Sainsbury's initiatives have included the sale of the £5 'I'm Not a Plastic Bag' cotton and rope bag designed by Anya Hindmarch as well as giving away reusable bags.