Cambridge News | 12 April 2019

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The money or the bag… By Sophie Iremonger

Shoppers have gone BYO rather than pay for plastic bags at supermarkets.

Just a few months after supermarkets stopped handing out bags – and left shoppers with the option of bringing their own or paying for them – couples like Margaret and Ian Cartwright of Cambridge have it well sorted. “We’ve got quite the collection,” said Margaret, at the end of a shop at New World, Cambridge. “We take our bags everywhere. “It’s just automatic now, you take a bag. Most people do.” Ahead of the change a survey showed more than nine out of 10 shoppers supported removing the free plastic bags, which were usually recycled once as a kitchen rubbish bag before being consigned to a land fill. New Zealand shoppers were using millions of them a year, and each would take about a century to breakdown. Ian and Margaret Cartwright now keep a supply of bags stored in their car to make sure they don’t forget, and most of the time it works. “Except for the other day when we came in a different car and had no bags,” Ian sighed. The phase-out is part of the government’s new legislation on plastic shopping bags announced in December last year – the Waste Minimisation (Plastic Shopping Bags) Regulations 2018 – which will see single use plastic carry bags removed from shops within the next three months. From July 1 it will be illegal for retail stores to sell or provide plastic bags for the purpose of carrying or distributing their sold goods. This applies to plastic bags which have carry handles, are new or unused, and are made of any type of plastic less than 70 microns in thickness – including biodegradable plastics. Continued on page 2

PICTURED: New World Cambridge owner/operators Logan and Nicola McKenzie love to see customers bringing in their reusable bags. The store has been part of a nation-wide effort to stop 350 million single-use plastic bags being distributed this year.

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