Ask RiotACT: Lightweight plastic bags at Kippax Woollies

$1.50 may seem like peanuts, but it adds up. $1.50 per fortnight is $40 ish a year which we previously did not incur. We never used to have to buy bags until this policy came in.
There are a surprising number of people doing it tough in our town, and lots of small cost increases have a cumulative impact.
I am a pretty organised person, but I am time-poor and somehow I always forget to take the bags back out to the car after unloading the shopping, or forget to take them into the shop with me!
I agree that online shopping could be one solution to the bag problem, though. I will look into it.

miz said :

All I’ve got from the plastic bag ban is a stash of heavier plastic bags than the ones I had before, and now I have to pay for them. But I’m sure someone, somewhere, who has no comprehension of other people’s lives, gets a warm glow for this daft policy.

If having free plastic bags from the supermarket is such a big deal to you, why not shop online? I do it every week and I have more plastic bags than I know what to do with that I end up chucking most of them out.
Then you don’t have to remember (because it’s obviously quite difficult to think “Oh I’m going to do the shopping, have to remember to take some bags”) to take your 10 carrybags (or pay an incredible $1.50 for them, which if you’ve bought enough stuff to fill 10 bags is probably a very small percentage of your total shop) and you get free bags.

miz said :

All I’ve got from the plastic bag ban is a stash of heavier plastic bags than the ones I had before, and now I have to pay for them. But I’m sure someone, somewhere, who has no comprehension of other people’s lives, gets a warm glow for this daft policy.

Why don’t you change the way you shop? As the bags are reusable you could unpack, fold and return them to your glovebox for the next time you are at the shops. It’s only a minor change and simply implemented. You save money and accidentally help reduce the amount of waste being produced.

MERC600 said :

Send it to mayor rattenbury. He seems to be desperately looking for something to hang his green credentials on.
( Can see the mayor followed by cars full of his advisers converging on Kippax. Possibly followed by that huge HazMat vehicle. )

Incidentally ,, when labour anointed the mayor as king maker, he asked for extra staff , which they obligingly did. Anyone know how many extra staff WE are paying for.

No tell us, how much are we paying for you?

rommeldog56 said :

Th plastic bags issue is a prime example of the Canberra Nanny State over regulation. I for one now do my weekly shop in Queanbeyan just to get those bags – and to stick it up the ACT Government of course.

Must we really dob in a supermarket who is just trying to help its customers. Why not take your own bags if you are so committed to the plastic bags ban.

I’m currently on the end of a long os trip. Attitudes here Italy are much, much more flexible than in that over regulated, over governed Nanny State called Canberra.

Plastic bags is a prime example.

I can not wait to get home so I can dob in a neighbour who

might want to chop down a tree in his backyard, complain about defence posters at the airport, think that the light rail will make Canberra grow up and transform it, etc. Canberra and I’m afraid, judging by many of the posts on RA since I’ve been away, many of the people in it, are far removed from reasonableness – and reality.

What do you use all your plastic bags for? For rubbish, one bag will last a person two to three weeks before it’s full. Anymore and you are generating excessive rubbish.
Sorry, I know. To store other plastic bags of cause.

Prohibition never works. The shop involved probably simply ran out of standard bags briefly and is aware that not everyone has 10 carrybags on them at any given time. It’s called ‘customer service.’

All I’ve got from the plastic bag ban is a stash of heavier plastic bags than the ones I had before, and now I have to pay for them. But I’m sure someone, somewhere, who has no comprehension of other people’s lives, gets a warm glow for this daft policy.

Th plastic bags issue is a prime example of the Canberra Nanny State over regulation. I for one now do my weekly shop in Queanbeyan just to get those bags – and to stick it up the ACT Government of course.

Must we really dob in a supermarket who is just trying to help its customers. Why not take your own bags if you are so committed to the plastic bags ban.

I’m currently on the end of a long os trip. Attitudes here Italy are much, much more flexible than in that over regulated, over governed Nanny State called Canberra. Plastic bags is a prime example.

I can not wait to get home so I can dob in a neighbour who might want to chop down a tree in his backyard, complain about defence posters at the airport, think that the light rail will make Canberra grow up and transform it, etc. Canberra and I’m afraid, judging by many of the posts on RA since I’ve been away, many of the people in it, are far removed from reasonableness – and reality.

Back on topic, it doesn’t sound that Woolworths should be using those bags. I don’t know why all plastic bags in supermarkets aren’t banned for carrying shopping home in, except perhaps for meat. If people can remember to bring their purse/wallet, they are capable of remembering to bring shopping bags.

Send it to mayor rattenbury. He seems to be desperately looking for something to hang his green credentials on.
( Can see the mayor followed by cars full of his advisers converging on Kippax. Possibly followed by that huge HazMat vehicle. )

Incidentally ,, when labour anointed the mayor as king maker, he asked for extra staff , which they obligingly did. Anyone know how many extra staff WE are paying for.

I was in one of the busier Woolies in South Canberra last week and was told they had run out of bags, but was not offered anything as an alternative and had to hobble to the car with an arm full of pepsi and catfood. I wished i had gone shopping a Jerra ww where they haven’t run out of the free bags that take up less space in my bin. Ban the thick bags i say.

Depends on the thickness. If they are less than 35 microns, they are banned. Get out your ruler and tell us!