Queensland and Western Australia will come into line with Southern States when single use plastic bags are banned on July 1.
Heavy duty plastic bags will still be available and if people continue their one-use habits with these bags, it will be much worse for the environment.
These bags will have to be used at least four times for them to be beneficial and Professor Sami Kara from the University of New South Wales says “It’s better in the long term that we don’t use [plastic bags] at all.”