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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?

Comments

[shanra.livejournal.com]

With paper bags?

[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!

[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.

[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

[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 :(