The Boomerang Alliance, an environmental group that represents over 50 environmental and government organisations have criticised Coles new reusable bags made from plastic marine waste as a “not genuinely reusable.”
“Coles have missed a golden opportunity to reduce the use of wasteful plastic bags by continuing to sell disposable shopping bags,” said Toby Hutcheon, Campaign Manager for Boomerang Alliance, criticising the leading Australian supermarket retailer.
Though he welcomed the high recycled content of 80 percent recycled plastic and 20 percent marine plastic waste in the Coles bags, he cautioned that the shopping bag’s increased thickness of 55 microns does not make the bags more reusable and are at “best used a few times” with the majority littered or dumped into landfill….