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How will the July 1st plastic bag ban affect you? (lemmy.nz)
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I hear that plastic bags are soon to be banned? How will that affect you? I've already thought about rubbish bags and bin liners and I don't know what the alternative will be yet. If they replace plastic rubber bags with those thick paper ones what is to stop people hiding a plastic bag inside of it? How will it be policed? Will the border customs staff be seizing imported plastic bags at the border?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

We don't buy plastic bags. We try to recycle as much as we can, including collecting soft plastics, but we first try to reduce the amount we produce.

I’ve already thought about rubbish bags and bin liners and I don’t know what the alternative will be yet.

Personally we just don't use a bin liner. The bin itself is plastic and easily washed, but doesn't need washing that often.

How will it be policed? Will the border customs staff be seizing imported plastic bags at the border?

I can't even find anything about bin liners or other plastic bags being banned from 1 July, only single use produce bags, plastic disposable cutlery/plates, plastic fruit stickers, and a restriction on who can buy plastic straws.

Can you point to something that says plastic rubbish bags are banned?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

We dont use bun liners either. The rubnish bin is easy to wash if needed, but that is rare since all the messy stuff goes out to the compost or into waste disposer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where we are, we have to use the council's prepaid plastic bags. It pisses me off - I wish they'd introduce stickers as another option. They don't even make good bin liners because they're too weak. But we barely use them now because we recycle or compost the vast majority of our stuff. Especially now that Tetrapak's sorted out a recycling solution in NZ. Also, there's no rubbish collection here, which adds a pretty big incentive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Our council has prepaid plastic bags. You can't get a private company wheelie bin? Some have fortnightly collection, which is what we use.

It's great you've managed to get your rubbish down so much! I swear we would have 1/4 of the rubbish if we didn't have kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, we live way out in the wops. We don't get any services out here at all. We have to drop the bags and recycling off at a collection point. We do try to cut down where we can.

Meanwhile, most people out here still burn their rubbish, plastic and all. The farmers burn huge piles of plastic silage wrap, filling the valley with the sweet aroma of burnt polyethylene.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah I see. That sucks, I wonder is burning plastic silage wrap is counted when they measure the CO2 output of NZ farms.