Reusable Plastic Bags Woolworths

Woolies has announced that 25 of its stores including some of the larger ones such as sandton city eastgate and canal walk have discontinued the use of single use plastics.

Reusable plastic bags woolworths.

We re now single use plastic bag free. Plastic bags have now been banned at these woolworths stores in gauteng and kzn the production of the low cost reusable bag has resulted in over 129 000 plastic bottles being recycled and made into the bag s fabric. Both woolworths and coles banned single use plastic bags in july last year. Instead of handing out free bags made of thinner plastic the chains only offered thicker reusable plastic bags at a.

It s a commitment we made to help reduce our impact on the environment and will see the removal of more than 3 2 billion single use plastic bags from circulation every year. Apart from the bag for good replacement policy online shoppers at woolworths who request their goods be packed into reusable plastic bags can return their unwanted bags to the store and gain a. Leading supermarkets coles and woolworths have been silent on the number of plastic reusable bags they have sold since they removed single use bags from stores nationwide.