Supermarkets and paper bag charges: Plenty of profit in price gouging forgetful shoppers - Ryan Bridge
Single-use plastic shopping bags have been banned since July 1 last year. Stores have not been allowed to provide them to ...
Crest grocery stores to phase out sackers, paper bags at its stores
On Monday, the local grocery chain announced it was ditching paper sacks in favor of cheaper plastic bags due to rising costs ...
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5 Ways to Store Plastic Grocery Bags for Easy Reuse
Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put to the ...
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Ryan Bridge: The issue with paper bags
They had printed little Christmas trees for goodness sake. So you chop down trees, you make paper bags and then you print more trees on them – we're supposed to be saving the planet. This is stupid, ...
Keeping grocery bags a local thing
A Taupo-based company is working to reduce New Zealand's reliance on imported packaging Following the single-use-plastic ban in 2019 two childhood friends looked into who was manufacturing paper ...
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Plastic or paper: Which bag is greener?
The supermarket chain Morrisons is raising the price of its reusable plastic bags from 10p to 15p as a trial and introducing a 20p paper version. The paper bags will be available in eight stores ...