Retailers urged not to landfill leftover plastic bags
Saturday, 29 June 2019, 10:28 am Press Release: Auckland Council
Retailers urged not to landfill leftover plastic
bags
With the plastic bag ban coming into force on
Monday, retailers are being urged not to landfill any
leftover lightweight shopping bags.
Landfilling leftover
bags is a waste of resources. For the next three days, until
the ban becomes law, retailers with excess bags could put
them out on the shop floor and invite customers to help
themselves to bags for use as bin liners.
“For
retailers who still have bags left on 1 July, we encourage
them to look at alternatives before landfilling them. It is
legal for retailers to donate the bags as long as they are
used as bin liners, and not carry bags," says Programme
Director – Waste Solutions, Parul
Sood.
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