Be Bag Smart

Help Rid Australia of Plastic Bags.
We all win when get we rid Australia of Plastic Bags.

Australia uses excessive numbers of plastic shopping bags because of our shopping culture where plastic shopping bags are seen as free and freely available to shoppers.

Australians currently use 5 Billion plastic shopping bags a year – that is about 13 million bags a day. These bags end up in our landfill, littering our streets and landscapes and polluting waterways and seas.

Plastic bags are in our hands for an average of fifteen minutes but remain in our environment for up to 1000 years.

This site can help individuals, retailers, communities and schools to become Bag Smart.

We can all do our bit to reduce the effect of shopping bags on our environment – just by changing the way we carry our shopping.