It's been one year since Australia's major supermarkets removed single-use plastic bags from checkouts and started charging for 'reusable' ones.
Coles says the move has already saved 1.7 billion single-use bags from ending up in landfill, but new research is casting doubt on whether the ban is doing more harm than good.
...Sales of small, single-use garbage bags have increased a whopping 120 per cent since the ban came into place.
The study also found that shoppers' behaviour pre-ban was more 'green', because thin bags were often reused as bin liners, to pick up dog poo or to carry things.
Critics say the ban isn't helping us to reduce plastic waste and is instead another way for big business to make shoppers part with their hard-earned cash."
Read all.
No comments:
Post a Comment