From Boomerang Alliance
http://www.boomerangalliance.org.au
Yesterday Premier Mark McGowan announced that Western Australia will ban plastic bags from July 2018. A time frame has also been given for Western Australia’s Container Deposit Scheme on bottle and cans. It is expected to start on 1 January 2019.
Queensland is also making excellent progress on these issues. The QLD Parliament has unanimously passed the container deposit and plastic bag ban law. Bags including biodegradables will be banned in mid-2018 and the Container Deposit Scheme will start at the same time.
Community pressure works and together we are unstoppable! These measures are HUGE steps away from plastic pollution and toward cleaner oceans. They will reduce litter, increase recycling and protect marine life.
NSW and Victoria are the only two remaining states without a ban on single use lightweight plastic bags despite a strong support from the community and businesses and countless benefits for the environment.
WA Premier McGowan has publicly encouraged New South Wales and Victoria to follow Western Australia's lead and called on the NSW Premier to “get up with the times”.
Please contact your local MP to increase the pressure to ban plastic bags in NSW and Victoria today!
see
https://boomerangalliance.good.do/BanTheBag/email-MP/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/09/12/western-australia-will-ban-single-use-plastic-bags-from-next-year_a_23205446/
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has thrown his support behind a movement urging Australian states and territories to ban the retail use of plastic bags, announcing a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags that will come into effect from July 1, 2018.
Responding to mounting pressure in light of a Change.org petition launched by 'The Project' in April in collaboration with Clean Up Australia, McGowan revealed on Tuesday that the decision was, in part, influenced by letters to him from young Western Australian students.
"I've always had the view we should get rid of more plastics and clearly young people support it and I had a lot of letters from kids from local schools who are very supportive," he told 'The Project' on Tuesday night.
"It is good for the environment, it saves marine life and wildlife. I am a strong conservationist so anything that does that, has my support."
