Coles Continues to ‘Bagflip’ on Plastic Bags

After commiting to reducing their plastic waste by no longer giving out free single-use plastic bags, Coles have now been presurised by unhappy consumers to extending the free giveaway of reusable plastic bags to August 29th. Coles stopped the distribution of their grey, single-use carrier bags back on the 1st of July but offered customers free reusable plastic bags in order to give them chance to adjust to no longer having access to the single-use bags.

Coles were due to begin charging shoppers 15 cents on the 1st of August for the reusable plastic…