Who Owns All Those Plastic Bags?
Supermarkets and grocery stores often provide trolleys to assist shoppers in transporting purchases to their vehicles. In Australia, the business is responsible for any trolleys that their customers take off-site and send staff out into the streets to round them all up. Supermakets can get fined if their shopping trolleys are littering the streets.
Supermarkets also provide plastic bags so shoppers can manage their purchases. Shoppers don’t actually buy the plastic bags, they are provided by the businerss in the same way as the trolleys.
Shouldn’t businesses collect all of their plastic bags that they send out into the world?
