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How will the July 1st plastic bag ban affect you? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hear that plastic bags are soon to be banned? How will that affect you? I've already thought about rubbish bags and bin liners and I don't know what the alternative will be yet. If they replace plastic rubber bags with those thick paper ones what is to stop people hiding a plastic bag inside of it? How will it be policed? Will the border customs staff be seizing imported plastic bags at the border?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've not had great success with the biodegradable rubbish bags. They just disintegrate and break when I take the full bag out the kitchen bin, spewing rubbish onto the floor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've found they disintegrate in the presence of liquids - if you don't put in food waste (which you can put into a compost bin anyway), they work pretty well!