Environment groups welcomed South Australias leadership in becoming the first State to ban plastic bags. South Australian Environment Minister, the Hon. Gail Gago MLC, yesterday announced that South Australia would push ahead with its own ban on plastic bags after the State and Federal Ministers Environment Protection & Heritage Council failed to come up with a way to implement its earlier promises to phase out plastic bags.
The South Australian Government was also successful in the first phase of its push to see the introduction of Container Deposits, with Ministers agreeing to undertake an urgent and detailed investigation into how they could solveAustralias growing packaging waste crisis.
South Australians are the nations champions in resource recovery, and they are often regarded as one of the best recyclers in the world said Dave West, National Campaign Director of the Boomerang Alliance, the countrys lead voice on waste avoidance and resource recovery
Once again South Australia is one of the few states with the guts to stand up to the big polluters.
