Professor urges supermarket bag boycott

Canberra Times Monday 9th January, 2012

A polymer expert has urged Canberrans to boycott plastic bags sold at supermarket checkouts and instead buy compostable bags and bin liners.Professor of chemistry at the Australian National University Michelle Coote said the bags sold by Coles and Woolworths in response to an ACT Government ban on plastic bags thinner than 35 microns would never re...

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