Is anyone else super excited about this?
Finally, we’re starting to see some traction with plastic bags around Australia.
Woolworths has said their goodbyes to the single-use plastic bag under a new ban across the retail giant’s stores.
So if you’re heading to the grocery store today, bring your green bags because Woolies ain’t going to give you anything.
Chief executive Brad Banducci said on Wednesday:
“This is a landmark day for us, not just as a business, but for our customers and communities, to help support a greener future for Australia.
“We are proud to say that, from now on, single-use plastic bags are gone from our stores, for good.”
If you’re like us and are thinking you’re always going to forget your reusable bag then here are some handy tips:
“Putting ‘reusable bags’ at the top of your shopping list, keeping a couple in the car or leaving a Post-it note on the fridge are some simple tricks that could work as a reminder.”
Supermarket giants, Woolworths and Coles joined a push to rid Australia of disposable plastic bags last July and set a deadline of June 30, 2018, for their stores to stop offering them to shoppers.
Woolies then brought the date forward 10 days and made their deadline, June 20.
They were providing more than 3.2 billion plastic bags a year to shoppers.
Fingers crossed the ban has similar affects to our plastic ban usage like it did in some countries overseas.
Britain and Ireland’s ban helped reduce plastic bags usage by up to 85 per cent.
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Written by Christina Caveleri
