WELLINGTON: Beginning on Saturday (Jul 1), New Zealand will become the first country to ban the thin plastic bags that supermarket customers use to collect their fruit and vegetables. The new ban will also extend to plastic straws and silverware, as the government expands a campaign against single-use plas
WELLINGTON: Beginning on Saturday , New Zealand will become the first country to ban the thin plastic bags that supermarket customers use to collect their fruit and vegetables.
“New Zealand produces too much waste, too much plastic waste,” said Associate Environment Minister Rachel Brooking. “The answer was still yes, it’s still worth doing this, but we really want to reduce single-use anything packaging,” Brooking said. “So we want people to be bringing their own bags, and supermarkets are selling reusable produce bags.”
Catherine Langabeer, Countdown's head of sustainability, said the mesh bags were tested to be reused up to 5,000 times each. Countdown was working hard to get customers to think of reusable fruit-and-vegetable bags as the norm, she said.
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