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[annarti]

Welp, plastic bags at the supermarket checkout are officially banned. Only in SA, of course, cos we get subjected to weird things like that. So now the whole state is asking, as we have been since the announcement a year ago, what the frig do we use to line our bins with now? How many plastic bags ACTUALLY just get thrown out, without being used as bin liners, as storage for dirty clothes or bathers on the way back from the beach, covering up food to keep it fresh in the fridge, stop bugs from eating it on the mantlepiece?

And apparently all the greenies are pressuring other states to take up the bag ban. NO, REST OF AUSTRALIA, DON'T DO IT. It's more stupid than the upcoming ban on incandescent light globes D: (which IS nationwide. Yeah.)

Again, I say, I didn't bloody vote for 'em. Well, Mr Rann? What do YOU line your kitchen bin with, hmm?

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[shanra.livejournal.com]

With paper bags?

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Bottom of the bag will go soggy and fall apart by the end of the week. Also, they cost money.

Believe me, after a year of warning, we have thought this through, and NOTHING comes up as a viable solution. We're going BACKWARDS~

[creatore-magico.livejournal.com]

Ugh, why start in a place like Australia when the US and the UK could definitely stand to do more about their over use of bags. I mean, we have a thing over here where if you re-use bags then you get points and stuff but, meh.

Perhaps they should have done what they did in Ireland, which was to start charging like 2p for bags. That way people remembered to bring thier own, but if they really needed them they could still afford.

Getting rid of bags completely seems so abrupt!

[annarti.livejournal.com]

You can ironically buy the heavy duty plastic bags at supermarket checkouts now, the same as the ones you get from department stores, for 15c each, so roughly~ 6p.

The rest of Australia is feeling sorry for us while laughing behind their hands.

Why are you weird people supporting this? We USE our plastic bags D: They never just get thrown out! D:

[creatore-magico.livejournal.com]

Poor Narti T_T Shall I send you a truckload of bags? XD

[annarti.livejournal.com]

We would love you forever *T____T*

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

My dad's arguement was "plastic bags are one of the most re-used things. People use them for binbags, to carry their lunches or wet shoes, to pick up dog crap..."

Man, how annoying.

[annarti.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY D: Thus the argument of the entire state of South Australia. Except our premier, who apparently does none of these things.

[ladylight.livejournal.com]

Plastic bags take up a SCARY amount of landfill and I think it's long overdue that their numbers be drastically cut down, but I can't understand why they would be banned completely in stores. We do not have a non-permeable alternative for rubbish ('buy real plastic rubbish bags instead - er, the difference is what?'). That is mindless. :P

... so basically you're carrying your togs around in wet paper bags in SA while we're praying to the mighty sun to forgive us for stealing its hours in WA ... ah, progress <3

[annarti.livejournal.com]

We had a couple from Sydney come into the bakery a few weeks ago, just as we'd gotten rid of our normal plastic bags, and they were saying how sorry they were for us :< For the last few weeks we've been using our tiny little biodegradable bags that fit, like, 3 pies in them. Which is GREAT when people are ordering pies and pasties for ten people, plus sweets for all of them, and also drinks.

So we don't even have them anymore, now. Even biodegradable plastic bags are banned. They're not biodegradable enough, you see. (And yet the David Jones and Myer type department store bags are fine. Yeah that makes sense.) How many people are seriously going to be thinking to bring in their canvas bags to buy pies and pasties for three kids and a spouse for lunch? NOBODY.

...Pray the bag ban never reaches WA D: You do want daylight savings, tho. I'm sure living in Tassie has at least made you see the light.*

[decacerata.livejournal.com]

I would go nuts without them. We use them for the dog poop pickup, to clean the litterbox, to carry lunch back and forth... and a lot of stores around here will give you credit for giving them your bags so they can use them to bag people's items in instead of buying new ones, and grocery stores usually have places to recycle them.

But banning them completely? That sucks :(

[annarti.livejournal.com]

We've been without them for one day and we're pissed off D: Well, we were pissed off when they announced it a year ago. My family's been stockpiling plastic bags :D