Plastic bags


The Small Achievement Awards

And the nominees are…

Plastic planet: bag bans around the world

As more Australian stores get on the reusable bag bandwagon, take a look at how other countries are dealing with the plastic peril.

Breaking the plastic bag addiction

How can we embrace the green-shopping-bag revolution when chirpy checkout chicks keep peddling the plastic? asks Simon Luckhurst.

UN calls for ban on plastic bags

There is “zero justification” for anyone, anywhere to be manufacturing plastic bags, says the UN, calling for a global ban.

How safe are those green bags?

The plastics industry are raising concerns about the hygiene of the reusable shopping bags that are increasingly replacing plastic bags at supermarkets. Of course they are. But are they right?

The history of plastic

As the most visible evidence of a disposable, trash-addled society, plastic has become the emblem of a world swimming in waste.

Pinecones for Jesus

I’m a pinecone and a christian…

Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks

Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people’s political coverage. Richard Farmer writes.

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Tibet or not Tibet? … bagging plastic bags … the real butchers of Iraq … ocean acidity … Toohey’s Walkley dummy spit …

Plastic fantastic: Bagging the bag baggers

The plastic bag scare numbers just don’t add up, writes Michael Pascoe.

What do green consumers look like?

A UK government department has recently segmented green consumers into seven groups, writes retail commentator Rob Lake.

Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks

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