Posted 01 November 2011
Starting from today the ACT has banned shops from giving or selling single-use, non biodegradable plastic bags.[+]
Posted 06 May 2011
Is your life too plastic? Environmentalist and co-founder of ‘Take 3’, Tim Silverwood thinks so. He is hosting screenings of the new, award-winning environmental documentary Bag It to help raise awareness of plastic pollution in our oceans.[+]
Posted 24 February 2011
NT's Environment Protection Bill will ban shops from giving or selling single-use, non biodegradable plastic bags.[+]
Posted 12 November 2010
Tasmania is set to ban plastic shopping bags within 12 months after a tri-partisan alliance seven years in the making. [+]
Posted 01 September 2010
ABC 702's "Self Improvement Wednesday" lesson for this week: How plastic bags are made.[+]
Posted 24 August 2010
Watch this Public Service Announcement in support of AB1998 to Ban the Bag in California, starring Ed Begley Jr., Kate Connor and featuring the music of the Ditty Bops and Directed by Grant James, created by the Plastic Pollution Coalition.[+]
Posted 17 August 2010
A state bill that would ban plastic and other single-use bags from supermarkets and some other types of stores is currently making its way through the California legislature. In the meantime, bill sponsor Heal the Bay is taking the bill to the public with a safari-like mocumentary following the plastic bag from the grocery store parking lot to the ocean. [+]
Posted 16 August 2010
Surfer/filmaker Chris Malloy and Keith Malloy have spent years travelling around the world looking for the best undiscovered surfing spots. From Antarctica to Iceland and from Galapagos to New Caledonia, no matter how remote the place was, plastic was already there.[+]
Posted 10 August 2010
NT Environment Minister Karl Hampton applauds the passing of the Environment Protection (Beverage Containers and Plastic Bags) Bill 2010, which will ban shops from giving away or selling single-use, non biodegradable plastic bags.[+]
Posted 23 July 2010
Some great initiatives to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic bags! [+]
Posted 08 June 2010
California is one step closer to a plastic bag ban in supermarkets, pharmacies and more.[+]
Posted 04 May 2009
400 million fewer bags will end up in the environment as a result of today’s SA plastic bag ban. [+]
Posted 01 May 2009
Do Something is backing Target’s national decision to ban the bag. [+]
Posted 30 April 2009
After months of work behind the scenes, today we can officially launch the Ban the Bag campaign! [+]
Posted 17 April 2009
Less than two weeks to go until launch, and plenty still to do! [+]