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Media Releases
- 10th April, 2004 (70kb pdf file)
Victorian Government and Planet Ark launch 'Plastic Bag Free Town' Challenge in Victoria. - 11th October, 2002 (18kb pdf file)
A Bag Habit We Need to Break! - 15th December, 2002 (19kb pdf file)
6.9 Billion New Reasons For Plastic Bag Levy! - 18th July, 2004 (81kb pdf file)
12 Town Centres to ban plastic bags in Victoria - 19th September, 2003 (81kb pdf file)
Plastic Bags - No Go in Mogo! - 21st August, 2004 (40kb pdf file)
Plastic Bag Famine begins today - can you go 48 hours without a plastic bag? - 21st November, 2003 (85kb pdf file)
Kangaroo Island To Go Plastic Bag Free - 21st November, 2003 (32kb pdf file)
Plastic Bag Campaign Gains Real Momentum - 22nd March, 2005 (78kb pdf file)
Australians slash plastic bag use by 1.34 billion bags - 23rd May, 2003 (17kb pdf file)
Plastic Bag Levy Campaign Gets Major Boost in Victoria - 23rd September, 2002 (33kb pdf file)
Irish Plastic Bag Tax - A Solution for Australia? - 26th April, 2004 (54kb pdf file)
Coles Bay Celebrates one year without plastic bags. - 26th February, 2004 (9kb pdf file)
Planet Ark Challenge Minister's Plastic Bag Claim - 29th July, 2004 (48kb pdf file)
Planet Ark calls on Federal Government to get tougher on plastic bags - 29th May 2004 (49kb pdf file)
Sydney's Oyster Bay becomes the first city suburb in Australia to ban plastic bags. - 2nd August, 2003 (111kb pdf file)
Planet Ark launches huge giveaway of FREE calico shopping bags! - 2nd Decemember, 2004 (13kb pdf file)
IKEA goes Plastic Bag Free today - 31st October, 2003 (66kb pdf file)
Mainland Australia's First Plastic Bag Free Town - 3rd May, 2009 (69kb pdf file)
Wildlife have had a gutful of plastic bags - 3rd September, 2004 (13kb pdf file)
National Restaurant Chain To Ban Plastic Bags - 5th June 2004 (43kb pdf file)
No Plastic Packing Along the Hacking - 5th March 2004 (9kb pdf file)
Planet Ark backs Bob Carr call for plastic bag ban - 6th June, 2004 (80kb pdf file)
Mark Latham announces plan to Ban plastic bags. - April 2003 (62kb pdf file)
Australian Town Bans Plastic Check-Out Bags! - March 2003 (55kb pdf file)
Go Green at Coles & Bi-Lo with the internationally popular Green Bag! - Plastic Bag Ban in South Australia (6 months on) Executive Summary (119kb pdf file)
Posters
- A Gutful of Plastic (845kb pdf file)
Poster showing the effect of swallowing large volumes of plastic waste on a Brydes whale
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