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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] 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.