Now that Coles and Woolworths have a plastic bag ban in place in Victoria - where are you guys getting your bags from? What is the best value reusable bag? Does the $0.99 bag last at least 6.6X longer than the $0.15 bag?
My local Coles/Woolworths aren't giving the $0.15 bags for free.
That's for 10 days ending next… Wednesday I think. So yeah make the most of it.
anybody tried the small to medium bin liners with handles,0.08 to 0.10 per bag 20 to 30 bags in a roll,after you take them home with your shopping you then reuse them or use to put into your bin liners,
I shopped at woolies this afternoon and read the info out the front of the store informing us about the 0.10c you get when you take the bottle etc back to the recycle area,I also noticed that the most items that are purchased in their stores example-soft drink bottles-recycle them to get your 0.10 per bottle and when I went to the soft drink aisle,guess what,most of their bottles of drink have been increased by 0.10c per bottle, but their own brand soft drinks have not been increased,pretty low hey,but snake droppings are also very low,I wonder which is the lowest
IOf course most of the drinks have increase 10c. It is a container 'deposit' scheme. A deposit is where you leave some money wiht the owner while you use the product, but get that money back when you return it.
If you don't take them back it is just a 'lazy tax' and you need to make a decision to accept that tax or not.
Container 'deposit' scheme is exactly right. My hope is that it brings us back to the glass milk bottles of old. Where we trade in old bottles and get a clean re-used one full of milk. This would be the ideal direction to go in.
Most of that "container deposit" price increase goes to politically connected people and their companies to "administer" and "manage" the scheme.
Regardless of the financial processes of the 10c, for the consumer you pay 10c extra to buy a drink, then get 10c back upon return of the container.
@Euphemistic: Except the price increase has generally been more than 10c. So the consumer is paying something like 15c more, and getting 10c back. As an example:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jan/08/coca-…
Coca Cola-Amatil has increased prices by 13.6c per container, excluding GST
@HighAndDry: So they snuck in a price increase to increase profits as well as the 10c and thought we wouldn't notice. I suspect most people wouldn't notice the extra 3.6c. The big bad corporations have used underhanded tactics to steal more of our money again! Shock!! Horror!! It's just not fair!!!!
Normally they hold their prices long as possible, then sell 'on sale' and increase the RRP. Then when the sale is over, the RRP stays high. They also use diversion tactics, like limited editions, free movie tickets, changing the package sizing etc. How dare they!
If you don't like it, vote with your wallet.
Don't need bag if buying few things. Lots of thing just put in trolley. Have boxes set up in Ur boot and load grocery in boxes. Unload boxes at home and put box back in boot
I love the triple handling procedure of this.. or not! Same at Aldi for years.
Full shop at Aldi: Load items into trolley carefully, unload onto conveyor, reload into trolley (upside down) in a hurry because you cant keep up with the scanner, unload trolley contents into bags in the car, unload bags to the pantry at home.
Put a couple of bags back into the car for quick shops. Keep most of the bags in the pantry to go in whichever car goes for the bulk shop. Because of the practice with Aldi over the years its easy to remember bags for Colesworths now.
Yes, but ALDI are 50% cheaper, I understand them not giving free bags. But coles/woolies? They make enough profit already.
I've been using reusable bags in VIC for years without any major issue.. If I ever forget to bring them I buy what I can carry and leave the rest for another time or fill up a trolley and unload directly into the car without bags. Even at specialty shops that use the thicker bags I opt without them.. do the people here complaining never shop at ALDI??
Sure I was able to change while there were still plastic bags but if this ban can be a catalyst in helping people change their behaviour and thinking on the issue then it's great.
Hopefully this ban will help divert waste not just from the oceans, but also to our local streets, waterways and environment.
The only thing that'd be better is if all the profits from the reusable bags went to a charity or environmental fund rather than their coffers but they are donating 10c per 99c bags to a charity so it's a start.
Haha. That's funny. Remnds me of Vaseline ads sayng they donate something like 5c of every vaseline jar to Africa. What a f*in joke. 5c of every 5$ jar???!!
I've been using my own bags for 20 years. I get my bags from envirosax. They're much better than the ones the supermarkets sell, hold more and last much longer. They also fold up into tiny pieces too.
They do cost quite a bit more, but they often have 1/2 price sales.
ikea bag, light, cheap, strong
I just put the anticipated number of green cloth bags in my backpack, shop.. done.. life is good :)
Got one of the re-usable ones from Coles tonight. The irony is that they are MADE IN GERMANY. In order to "save plastic", they've imported them from the other side of the planet, carbon footprint be damned. SMH, what a bunch of muppets.
I would not have a problem if the supermarkets donated to charity their $180,000,000 they now save on plastic bags.
It's the cost of doing business, it's like me saying my trucks use $2000 yearly of tyres, to save money I will stop buying tyres for my trucks. FTW?
I make sure I carry my ALDI bag with me to Coles, and make sure it is displayed PROMINENTLY. FU COLES!
got 'em
I make sure I take a few of the SINGLE USE GARBAGE BAGS with me to the counter and ask ARE THESE BANNED TOO! No? Why not? They are single-use too!!! Then I leave them at the register. Let the f**ckwits restock them.
Directing your anger at the supermarket workers is misguided
Also, people forget that Coles/Woolies SQUEEZE the poor farmers TO THE BONE. Now thry won''t pay for plastic bags? They deserve all the wrath they get.
So many people losing the point here: it's not the matter of taking bags with us everytime we go to supermarket (which is truly annoying) but the fact that most of us used to use the supermarket plastic bags in the bin.
The plastic bag ban doesn't change the fact that we still need plastic bags to put our rubbish in, but now we need to pay for it.
Supermarket are just using the environment BS to cash in.
if you actually seperate food scraps from your 'general waste' & put into compost or your green waste bin then you don't need bin liners as your bin doesn't get dirty from waste!
I wish the bin chute in my apartment could automatically separated the different types of waste on the way down.
we still need plastic bags to put our rubbish in, but now we need to pay for it.
You really don't.
You don't need to buy bags from the supermarket either.
Coles have back flipped, bags now free indefinitely
Just curious if anyone else is 'struggling' with the plastic bag ban? I have <10 plastic bags left and am wondering what I should substitute it with. I have no idea.
Specially referring to alternatives for bin liners? I'd assume a lot of people do what I did and reuse the bag as a liner for the (inside) bin. Once it's full, you tie it up and throw it in the bigger bin outside.
I've bought a small box and made it into a compost bin. But how about things like raw meat (unwanted scraps and bones from cooking), dirty nappies (babies), rotten food/leftovers, general rubbish you can't recycle, pet hair/poop, etc. Just dump loose items in the bin?
Foolishly I have tried wrapping the rubbish in scrunched up paper and chucked it in the bin. But even then it's no great (paper should be recycled and over time it'll just unscrunch itself).
My "garbage bags" now cost $0.15c each.
'Actual' large garbage bags cost 10c ea at most. And one assumes you need less of them to put rubbish in than you needed for the groceries in the first place.
Realistically, I'm not going to be re-using the $0.15 bag for shopping since I never carry bags around. It's going to be the price of convenience.
So for myself, it's a case of me already buying the $0.15c bags and if I don't use it as a garbage bag and buy a separate one, then it's another $0.10c after that.
use the fruit and vege bags. double bag and then a third tied around in a loop to act as the handle.
as for bin liners, I use the occasional 15c ones as the safetynet incase the fruit and vege bags break and then put the fruit vege double bag in with 3 bulldog clips to make a triangle as the circumference of these are now too small to flip around the bin.
They'd be using the cheaper disposable bags as garbage bags otherwise. This is because of the ban.