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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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[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.*