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How will the July 1st plastic bag ban affect you? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i like the blue Ikea bags personally.

we could cross post this to c/fitness