All single-use plastic shopping bags and straws would be banned under a new and ambitious Greens push to curb Victoria’s growing rubbish problem.
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| Rubbish collected in a trawl from Melbourne's Yarra River. |
The Andrews government has moved to ban some plastic bags from next year but the Greens want much stronger prohibitions, calling for a phase-out of many items that Victorians use every day.
Read the story by Benjamin Preiss from The Age - “Greens call for ban on plastic straws, single-use bags.”
