Business Green: The UK’s leading supermarkets today received a pat on the back from the government, despite the release of new figures showing that they have narrowly missed a voluntary target to halve plastic bag use. According to the new data from the government-backed Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), seven of the UK’s largest supermarkets – Asda, the Co-operative, including Somerfield, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose – distributed 372m plastic carrier bags in May this year, a reduction …