Woolworths is trialling the removal of classic plastic bags in 12 WA stores, including Floreat, Murray St, Yanchep, Margaret River and Busselton, ahead of the state’s ban on single use plastics coming in to force in March 2024.
Can buy them online for full price
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/181199/woo…
So try these mesh ones instead, as the ones you use will no longer be available after March
I'll stick to using the brown paper bags, that for some reason are always kept next to the mushrooms.
Is a bag necessary?
No. A box works fine.
Until you get to the scales.
I'm an environmentalist, but I think this is pretty impractical. Fruit and veggies juices leaks and it could ruin your whole groceries if it gets crushed. There are ways to reduce plastic, but this isn't one.
If your fruit and veggies are crushed to the extent that they leak juice, perhaps you have packed them incorrectly.
How can I pack them? The checkout operator crams everything into as few bags as possible.
Doubt this.. I mean you are paying for the bags. They will gladly pack everything in its own bag if you ask them
More and more fruit and veg products are now coming pre-wrapped. How about ColesWorth do something about that? Oh wait no, much better just make the poor consumer pay.
how did they cope before plastic bags.
Been using produce bags for years and never had any crushed produce leak and ruin my whole grocieries.
Each bag is 25cm x 27cm and is so light, you are not charged any extra at the checkout.
I’ll believe it when i confirm it with my own balance.
These are great for storing Lego
I guess woolies figured that since they managed to convince people to pay for plastic bags that they'd do it a second time with veggie and fruit bags. It's definitely in the name of profiteering cough I mean environmentalism. I mean it's not like pre-packaging bread in plastic is an issue right?
I am sure all other groceries also have to do the same
Shhh if woolies sees this they'll start selling reusable bread bags 🙄
Good point. Just empty the bread out of its bag and use that for.your fruit or vegetables.
I hate that they're getting rid of those bags. Apart from fruits and veggies I use those to bag meat and poultry which can often have sticky meat residue
For years I've always wondered wtf people meant by one use plastics….then found out people just binned the bags after getting home instead of reusing them…wild world out there.
It get that its because of our fantastic state government - who thinks that denying me a straw that doesn't turn to mush is saving the planet - but surely charging you for something that used to be free IS NOT A BARGAIN!!!
Mesh bags were never free. They are $1.50 for 3 if you buy online..
But plastic fruit bags were - and are.
Asian countries contribute nearly all of the plastic pollutants into the world's oceans - and I can't have a bag to put my apples in…
I aint really much of environmentalist. But the excuse I aint doing anything wrong because other countries are worse doesn't really make sense..
@Roary: Its not about 'doing anything wrong'.
Its about thinking you are saving the planet by removing something that made zero difference in the first place.
the whole store is full of ridiculously overpackaged foods that take stupid amounts of material and energy to produce….but fruit & veg bags are the problem???
The packaging can be excessive, but is important. 3rd would countries that lack packaging often have higher spoilage rates.
lmao
If they swapped out the single use plastic for compostible bags at their cost then that would be something worth celebrating
I don't not believe anything they about the environment
Of course they don't care about the environment - profits is their number 1 priority. If they did care about the environment, they wouldn't be pre-packaging more and more fruit and veg in plastic.
Yes I don't disagree at all. But this post was not about does Woolworths care about the environment, it was about the savings one can save buy buying the re-usable mesh bags here than buying them later on or at other stores.
![[WA] Reusable Mesh Veggie & Fruit Bags, Three for $0.30 (Usually $1.50) @ Woolworths (Selected Stores)](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/65/797365.jpg?h=dc866330)
What $1.5B profit not enough now?
I use the fruit and veg plastic bags as my free rubbish bags.