I rather like using plastic bags. They're strong. They're convenient. As a consequence I have bought 2500 plastic bags for $30 and intend to use every one of them. WA has a ban coming in early June. I also bought a 20L drum of microplastics containing hand wash, as nothing works better after working on the car. Am I a bad person?
After the ban comes into effect, all customers are supposed to bring their own bags. I also noticed at Woolworths in the Perth city center back in my student days that it was inappropriate to bring your own bags or shopping bags from other stores to the supermarket and you're obliged to show what's inside your bags if you do at checkout as the in-store announcement explained. I think this is peculiar to Western Australia.
good to know the 70s liberals were proven BS artists by todays liberals. Good to see we are back to killing trees. This helps global warming somehow in the 21st century.
You can always buy your own plastic bags. Just go to the storage aisle of your supermarket and get the bucket sized ones. I use these in my porta pottie whenever I go camping.
WA is banning plastic bags? As in grocery bags? As in THE WHOLE STATE?? Wtf am i sposed to put scooped cat turds in to keep em from smelling up the garbage between dump runs? Seriously. This is Fing dumb. They already charge extra for them.
This is nothing to worry about. It has happened in the ACT where I live for years. If you need plastic bags for rubbish or turds then you can still buy them. You learn to bring your own cloth bags for shopping. Though many people need to pay to get a thicker plastic bag. That is what is so stupid. Should only be allowed paper or cloth bags.
Make your own shopping bags out of thick durable denim cloth, or use old style rice bags as the body and make wood handles.
I missed this and to be frank I have avoided the debate in our media. I think it's because I'm in South Australia and we got over this years ago (2009). I am kicking myself though, should have bought into the firm in China making the green bags. But a little spin-off is that you can have fun buying your re-usable shopping bags, they can have all kinds of crazy quotes on them and businesses can advertise and pollies give them out so you can walk around doing you shopping with a pollie's name on it. Don't worry non-South Aussies, your way of life is not under threat
r/thathappened Let's assume you are actually telling the truth. Why not just buy a few cheaper and longer lasting bag made out of canvas/plastic/cotton/etc.?
It's about the principle. We have literally millions of square kilometres to place landfill. We have the second biggest substate in the world, there is no issue. It's a manufactured issue.
it's gonna be a non-issue "Scientists stumbled upon a plastic-eating bacterium—then accidentally made it stronger" https://www.popsci.com/bacteria-enzyme-plastic-waste plus you could just buy them on ebay or amazon if local stores could not sell them
Australian plastic bags generally don't find their way into the oceans. They help stabilize landfills. They help keep the country clean They help prevent the transmission of disease. No, you are not a bad person.
So, where will you site that landfill? It costs to build landfill sites in and around cities. It costs to transport waste. Where will you put medical waste? It has to be burned at a certain temperature Have you not kept up with the panic around the fact that China is no longer accepting "recycling"?
Doesn't take a whole lot of brain power to just buy a couple of re-usable bags ... but hey, if you need to cut off your own dick just to piss off a few environmentalist, who am I to criticize. WTF, just buy re-usable bags. They're stronger.
Medical waste has little to do with a plastic ban, treat it as we currently do. Empty space legit everywhere.
