Yikes.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know supermarket giant Woolies are just weeks away from a total ban on plastic bags at the checkout.
And, if you didn’t know… where is this rock and how good is the insulation re: naps?
But we digress.
With so little time before the Big Switch, eyes have been all over the retailer and its practices. Including one shopper who posted some questionable packaging on Reddit.
The image, uploaded by ‘Yulpe’, showed sliced apples wrapped in plastic packaging upon plastic packaging.
“Spotted this new item tonight, 300g of apple wrapped in about 70g of plastic. Ridiculous!” they wrote.
“The amount of complaints made about this stuff is crazy too, good to see they care.”
The image was met with a barrage of comments agreeing with the original poster and adding their own anecdotes.
“They call themselves the ‘Fresh Food People’. Is Fresh the name of the plastic bag company?” wrote another Redditor.
A Woolies spokesperson has addressed according to Daily Mail Australia, with plastic packaging removed from products like avocado, organic spring onions, celery, kale and English spinach.
“These moves will help save more than 37 tonnes of plastic packaging on a yearly basis and we have plans to do even more throughout 2018,” the statement read.
Planet Ark CEO Paul Klymenko has previously explained the problems that have led to the plastic ban, to be followed by Coles, in select locations, ten days after Woolworths.
“Single-use plastic bags have become a huge problem for Australia’s oceans and waterways where they cause significant harm to turtles, whales and fish,” Klymenko said in a statement.
“They also don’t breakdown in landfill and require significant resources to manufacture in the first place. Experiences in countries like the UK and Ireland have shown the introduction of small charges on plastic bags can end up reducing plastic bag usage by up to 85 per cent as shoppers embrace reusable alternatives, and we have every confidence this can happen in Australia too.”
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Written by Ally Parker
