Sustainable shopping vs single use bags

In NZ we use around 1.6 billion single-use plastic bags every year. Many of these bags end up clogging our waterways and are detrimental to some wildlife. The useful life of a plastic bag is a brief one, and it's followed by decades of hanging around. Most of our single-use carriers are used for about 12 minutes, but they could take a century to break down.In the meantime, they are clogging up landfills, polluting our waterways, or blowing into the bush.

Sustainable shopping is part of caring for our environment which in turn reduces the cost of living for us and future generations.