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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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