Canberrans will soon be putting their shopping into fabric or paper bags, with heavyweight plastic bags set to be banned in the ACT from 2024. Photo: Chris Steel MLA Facebook.
Several more single-use plastic items have disappeared from Canberra with the third phase of bans coming into effect.
The sale, supply and distribution of plastic plates and bowls, plastic microbeads in rinse-off personal care and cleaning products, expanded polystyrene loose fill packaging and expanded polystyrene trays became illegal in the Territory as of 1 July.
The ACT Government has also announced heavyweight plastic and boutique shopping bags (greater than 35 microns thick) will be banned from the start of 2024.
Heavyweight plastic bags became more popular…
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