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Ryan Bridge: A few questions about the plastic bag ban · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Remember the excitement, the pride at being first, the proclamations
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  Speaker 1: of cleaning up our world and making it better for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the single plastic use bag band on
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Remember that. A few salient points to note
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  Speaker 1: this morning, sixty years on from when it was announced.
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  Speaker 1: There's a report out this morning on plastics. The use
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  Speaker 1: of plastic is expected to treble globally by twenty sixty,
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  Speaker 1: most of it in Africa and Asia. Plastic waste will
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  Speaker 1: also treble by twenty sixty. Half of it will end
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  Speaker 1: up in the landfill. Less than a fifth of it
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  Speaker 1: will be recycled. So well done, you know, our pack
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  Speaker 1: and save efforts, We're really doing well for the world.
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  Speaker 1: Who's profiting from this? That's the other thing I wonder.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much supermarkets make every time I
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  Speaker 1: forget my reusable plastic bags and I have to buy
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  Speaker 1: the paper ones. But the price of the paper one
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  Speaker 1: the other day that I paid was four cents, And
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  Speaker 1: I can remember when they first started telling them, it
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  Speaker 1: was like ten or twenty cents, So there's been a
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  Speaker 1: bit of inflation going on since then. And now they've
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  Speaker 1: got Christmas trees printed on them. How much extra is
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  Speaker 1: that costing. I don't want a Christmas tree on my
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  Speaker 1: paper bag, thank you very much. I want the paper
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  Speaker 1: bag not to break just because I put some wet
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  Speaker 1: milk in it, so annoying. In Australia, coson Wall was
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  Speaker 1: apparently profit. This was after they changed their rules profit
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  Speaker 1: seventy one million dollars a year off their reusable bags.
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  Speaker 1: Now I don't know what the number is here. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea, but I would have thought we'd be
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  Speaker 1: asking ourselves a few questions. Do I want us going
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  Speaker 1: back to plastic bags? No, I don't necessarily want us
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  Speaker 1: going back to plastic bags, but could we please know
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things. Where are our bags actually ending
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  Speaker 1: up in the ocean in the first place or was
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  Speaker 1: that other people's bags? You know? Were you throwing your
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  Speaker 1: plastic bag in the ocean when you went and checked
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  Speaker 1: the beach? Were the bags from Countdown, New Zealand? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. And how much are the supermarkets making out
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  Speaker 1: of us for the bags that break before we get
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  Speaker 1: them to the boot of our cars. Just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things I'd like to note. For more from early
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