Coles Marine Waste Shopping Bags ‘Not Genuinely Reusable,’ Environmental Group

Coles Marine Waste Shopping Bags ‘Not Genuinely Reusable,’ Environmental Group
File photo of a Coles supermarket in Sydney, Australia. Janita Kan/NTD
Marina Zhang
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The Boomerang Alliance, an environmental group that represents over 50 environmental and government organisations have criticised Coles new reusable bags made from plastic marine waste as a “not genuinely reusable.”

“Coles have missed a golden opportunity to reduce the use of wasteful plastic bags by continuing to sell disposable shopping bags,” said Toby Hutcheon, Campaign Manager for Boomerang Alliance, criticising the leading Australian supermarket retailer.
Marina Zhang
Marina Zhang
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Marina Zhang is a health writer for The Epoch Times, based in New York. She mainly covers stories on COVID-19 and the healthcare system and has a bachelors in biomedicine from The University of Melbourne. Contact her at [email protected].
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