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Labor Announces Plan To Ban Single Use Plastic Bags And Microbeads

The party announced the news today - by Francesca Wallace
  • 01 Apr 2019
Labor Announces Plan To Ban Single Use Plastic Bags And Microbeads

The Labor Party has announced plans to ban all single use plastic bags across the country by 2021. In a promise leading up to the May federal election, party leader Bill Shorten outlined plans to scrap waste across the country, starting with reforms to plastic bags and microbeads.

"Plastic has a devastating impact on our natural environment - more than a third of the world's sea turtles were found to have plastic waste in their stomachs, and it is estimated around 90 per cent of seabirds eat plastic waste," a joint statement from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, environment spokesman Tony Burke and Labor Senators Penny Wong and Kim Carr read on Sunday.

If elected, the promise would see the Labor Party consult with individual states and territories about banning plastic bags, theoretically coming in effect by 2021.

The plan was announced as part of a $290 scheme to help reduce waste and includes a national container deposit scheme and a $60 million national recycling fund.

The European Union recently announced it would be banning single use plastic and New Zealand’s government revealed last August that single use plastic shopping bags would be phased out over the following 12 months. 

Microbeads and plastic bags have a seriously detrimental effect on the health of marine life, with European research finding 80 per cent of ocean rubbish is made up of plastic.

Francesca Wallace
Francesca Wallace
Francesca is our Senior Digital Fashion Editor. She can most likely be found eating a big bowl of fries (don’t forget the aioli!), watching something trashy on TV or spending all her money online shopping. She’s interviewed everyone from Nicole Kidman to Kendall Jenner but didn't get a single good photo.

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