Tips For Shoppers
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- Use reusable bags, boxes or a backpack for your shopping.
- After you unpack your groceries, put your reusable bags back on the front seat of your car or at your front door. That way, you won't forget them the next time you shop!
- Keep compact reusable bags handy in your boot, glove box, backpack, briefcase or handbag so you are always prepared for incidental purchases.
- If you buy one or two items you can simply carry these to your car, home, office etc.
- Reuse plastic bags you have accumulated at home as garbage bin liners, for clothing storage and for freezing food, or while walking your dog.
- Take your plastic checkout bags to participating retailers such as Coles, Woolworths, Franklins or Safeway for recycling. They cannot be placed in the home recycling bin. To find out your local plastic bag recycling locations, go to RecyclingNearYou.com.au.
- If you do not have your reusable bags with you and need plastic bags at the checkout, ensure that there are a number of items in each bag - depending on the weight of the items.
- Better still, ask for a compostable bag. These can be used to line your kitchen scraps bin and then you can pop that straight into your compost pile. Some supermarkets and retailers, like Aldi and Target stores nationally and many retailers in South Australia, make these available to their customers.
- Spread the word. Ask your local shops to stock plastic bag alternatives if they don't already and encourage friends and family to carry and use reusable bags.