Business Green: The UK’s leading supermarkets have once again missed a voluntary goal to halve the number of single use carrier bags handed out, despite cutting usage since last year, new figures have shown. The government-backed Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) confirmed today that the total number of carrier bags issued by the UK’s leading supermarkets has fallen 41 per cent since figures were first recorded in 2006. Moreover, the number of "single-use" carrier bags issued has …