Greenpeace campaigner Zoe Dean welcomes the move by Coles to begin charging customers 15c for their reusable plastic bags from late August after the supermarket giant yesterday declared they would offer free bags indefinitely.”This is a fantastic outcome and shows exactly what we said yesterday – that Coles had put too much stock in the complaints of a small, but very vocal, minority.
“The sheer scale of the outrage following their decision to indefinitely supply free plastic bags has obviously shown them what we’ve known all along – that the majority of Australians want action and leadership to reduce plastic pollution.
“But this kind of flip-flopping is confusing and frustrating for customers and is a natural response to a lack of leadership from the NSW state government – now the only government in Australia that have not moved to ban single plastic bags.”