ARE YOU READY?
- Work with local community groups, retailers and the media to ensure that your community is ready for a plastic bag phase-out.
- Give away reusable bags and paper bags in your community. Councils and community groups have given away over a million reusable bags and paper bags in recent years. Can your council do the same? For paper bag supplier details, click here. For reusable bag suppliers, click here.
- Design a poster for your community that can be put up in local retail outlets. We will post the best examples on this web site. You can submit your posters and promotional materials here.
- Run an ongoing campaign in partnership with your local newspaper. Get readers to send in their own tips for living without plastic check-out bags. If you get any good tips, send them to us by clicking here – we’ll post the best ones on or web site!
- Do a ‘Coles Bay’ and get your local community and retailers to go plastic check-out free.
