Supermarkets and paper bag charges: Plenty of profit in price gouging forgetful shoppers ...
Single-use plastic shopping bags have been banned since July 1 last year. Stores have not been allowed to provide them to ...
Bring back plastic shopping bags. No one’s buying the ban | Peter Goers
There’s a new black market boom coming via our nation’s frustrated shoppers, writes Peter Goers. Have your say. My heart, ...
Keeping grocery bags a local thing
A Taupo-based company is working to reduce New Zealand's reliance on imported packaging Following the single-use-plastic ban ...
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TINY FOOTPRINTS: Plastic Grocery Bags Are Going Away Entirely in Another Year, And You’re ...
Unfortunately, the ban led to a loophole in which stores were able to sell thicker plastic bags. According to CalRecyle, the ...
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In opposition to upcoming bill on paper bags | READER COMMENTARY
The bill would remove the charge for paper bags at grocery stores causing, as occurred in another jurisdiction, an immediate ...
Opinion
Ryan Bridge: The issue with paper bags
They had printed little Christmas trees for goodness sake. So you chop down trees, you make paper bags and then you print more trees on them – we're supposed to be saving the planet. This is stupid, ...
The Huddle: Do the paper bags need to go?
Tonight on The Huddle, Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A and Nick Mills from ZB's Wellington Mornings joined in on a discussion about the f ...