The Old Bag Can’t Win

The Government has a plan to “faze out” plastic bags from shops and supermarkets. This is due to the environmental menace they become once they are disposed improperly. I am yet to hear their plan for how consumers are to haul their groceries to their vehicles. The Australian Retailers Association suggests the replacement will be made from paper, and this would mean an increase in logging. I’m sure Peter Garrett is not a fan of logging.

So what is the answer to the ‘bag crisis’?

1. Charge for bags the way Aldi does
2. Only accept reusable plastic bags – although what happens to them when they wear out?
3. Leave as is and promote recycling old plastic bags – at the moment it is just an otto bin hiding in the corner, if you didn’t know it was there you wouldn’t find it.
4. Go ahead with paper bags and cop the flack from all those anti logging people who voted for you because they thought you had their interests in mind

Either way it’s going to be hard to do away with the trusty plastic bag.