I hear that plastic bags are soon to be banned? How will that affect you? I’ve already thought about rubbish bags and bin liners and I don’t know what the alternative will be yet. If they replace plastic rubber bags with those thick paper ones what is to stop people hiding a plastic bag inside of it? How will it be policed? Will the border customs staff be seizing imported plastic bags at the border?
Aussie here: if it turns out anything like ours, look forward to shitty cardboard/paper bags at the supermarkets that cost 15c, and increase in price every 12 months. It’s a delicious little money maker for them.
Meanwhile, the Chinese grocer just got all their plastic bags with the words “reusable bag” printed on them instead.
We’ve had plastic supermarket bags phased out for quite some time now. As far as I can tell, the only plastic bags being phased out on 1 July are plastic produce bags at supermarkets. We just take reusable ones, not the shitty plastic reusable ones but the canvas-ish ones that let you put 12L of milk in them without an issue.
We don’t buy plastic bags. We try to recycle as much as we can, including collecting soft plastics, but we first try to reduce the amount we produce.
I’ve already thought about rubbish bags and bin liners and I don’t know what the alternative will be yet.
Personally we just don’t use a bin liner. The bin itself is plastic and easily washed, but doesn’t need washing that often.
How will it be policed? Will the border customs staff be seizing imported plastic bags at the border?
I can’t even find anything about bin liners or other plastic bags being banned from 1 July, only single use produce bags, plastic disposable cutlery/plates, plastic fruit stickers, and a restriction on who can buy plastic straws.
Can you point to something that says plastic rubbish bags are banned?
We dont use bun liners either. The rubnish bin is easy to wash if needed, but that is rare since all the messy stuff goes out to the compost or into waste disposer.
Where we are, we have to use the council’s prepaid plastic bags. It pisses me off - I wish they’d introduce stickers as another option. They don’t even make good bin liners because they’re too weak. But we barely use them now because we recycle or compost the vast majority of our stuff. Especially now that Tetrapak’s sorted out a recycling solution in NZ. Also, there’s no rubbish collection here, which adds a pretty big incentive.
Our council has prepaid plastic bags. You can’t get a private company wheelie bin? Some have fortnightly collection, which is what we use.
It’s great you’ve managed to get your rubbish down so much! I swear we would have 1/4 of the rubbish if we didn’t have kids.
Nah, we live way out in the wops. We don’t get any services out here at all. We have to drop the bags and recycling off at a collection point. We do try to cut down where we can.
Meanwhile, most people out here still burn their rubbish, plastic and all. The farmers burn huge piles of plastic silage wrap, filling the valley with the sweet aroma of burnt polyethylene.
Ah I see. That sucks, I wonder is burning plastic silage wrap is counted when they measure the CO2 output of NZ farms.
We already have gone low-plastic. Soft plastics get collected separately to everything else and dropped off with soft-plastic recycling. For our bins we line the landfill bin with a thick paper shopping bag and use a separate container for organic waste.
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Perth went through those a couple of years ago.
For me, I always forget to take a bag, and as a result am forced into the grocery juggle to take the stuff. I then grab a washing basket when I get home to take them inside.
I made it a personal goal to not buy bags if I forget, I reckon in the years it has come in I have purchased 5 times.
I have bought a folding car boot organiser, and use that as a bag. I put it near the door to remember to take it back to the car, where it now.lives. it means I can do the manly thing to only ever do one trip from the car to inside.
We’ve had plastic supermarket bags phased out for quite some time now. As far as I can tell, the only plastic bags being phased out on 1 July are plastic produce bags at supermarkets.
Personally we have some little reusable bags that live in the car, just in case. But I prefer the big heavy duty canvas-like bags so you can carry all the groceries inside at once, so long as you can carry 30KG.
i like the blue Ikea bags personally.
we could cross post this to c/fitness
