Wharworths, the Australian supermarket giant, announced on April 9 that it will stop the supply of disposable plastic bags in four states, including New South Wales, from June 20. The sub-brands of its supermarkets, wine shops and retail stores will shrink each year. The supply of about 3.2 billion disposable plastic bags.
As an alternative, the customer needs to carry their own shopping bags or choose to purchase the reusable shopping bags provided by the supermarket.
Woolworths Chief Executive Bandusi said that the disposable plastic bag decommissioning plan is 10 days ahead of schedule and the positive effect on the environment can be seen as soon as possible. According to the original plan, Woolworths will stop the use of disposable plastic by June 30 this year. Bags are available for free, and competitors Coles and Harris Farms have also announced plans for limited plastics.
From the 11th of this month, Woolworths will take plastic limit measures in some stores in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.
At present, the four other administrative districts outside the four states have explicitly issued a one-time limit for plastic bags, and Woolworths and other groups in these four states are self-published.
The Australian environmentalist Jon Dee affirmed Woolworths' practice and pointed out that the Australian Federal Environment Department should issue a nationwide plastic limit order to reduce the use of approximately 6 billion plastic bags per year in the country.
Bryjik Lin, governor of New South Wales, responded by saying: 'I don't need to make a plastic limit order, because the supermarket's own plastic limit measures have reduced the use of disposable plastic bags by 80%.'