Posted 12 November 2010
Tasmania is set to ban plastic shopping bags within 12 months after a tri-partisan political alliance seven years in the making, reports The Mercury.[+]
Posted 12 November 2010
Momentum appears to be growing nationally for a ban on plastic checkout bags, as Tasmania joins three other jurisdictions to outlaw them, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.[+]
Posted 07 July 2010
The consumer watchdog has accused two companies of falsely claiming plastic bags they made and sold were biodegradable - the ABC reports[+]
Posted 02 October 2010
Plastic bag ban advocates Jon Dee and Ben Kearney are confident a ban in Tasmania will go ahead, reports The Mercury.[+]
Posted 11 November 2010
Tasmanian Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage, David O’Byrne, yesterday annouced plans to take a proposal to Cabinet to implement a ban on lightweight plastic bags.[+]
Posted 01 November 2010
TASMANIA looks set to become the second state to ban plastic bags after a motion passed through the state's lower house with tripartisan support - reports new.com[+]
Posted 29 August 2010
The two pioneers of an Australia-first ban on plastic bags, Jon Dee and Ben Kearney, say Tasmania has dropped from being a world leader of a now-global environmental movement to an embarrassingly reluctant follower, reports The Mercury.[+]
Posted 12 August 2010
The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald report on the NT plastic bag ban and talks to Do Something founder Jon Dee about the lack of a national ban.[+]
Posted 10 August 2010
Plastic bags will be banned in the Northern Territory from mid next year, making it only the second jurisdiction in Australia to turn to reusable green bags, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.[+]
Posted 10 August 2010
Plastic bags will be banned in the Northern Territory from mid next year, making it only the second jurisdiction in Australia to turn to reusable green bags, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.[+]
Posted 10 August 2010
Plastic bags will be banned from Territory shops in 12 months time, reports NTNews.com.au. [+]
Posted 04 November 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that confidential industry data shows plastic bag use is far higher than the official figures indicate. Actual bag use could be as much as 30% higher in some cases. Jon Dee said, "customers of major supermarkets have a right to know how each supermarket is going and what they are doing about the bag issue."[+]
Posted 22 May 2009
Do Something Founder Jon Dee speaks to Fiona Ellis-Jones on ABC NewsRadio about the need for action on a range of environmental issues, including plastic bag consumption, ahead of a meeting of Federal, State and Territory environment ministers in Hobart.[+]
Posted 22 May 2009
A recent poll by Do Something has found that 83 percent of Australians want a ban on non-biodegradable plastic bags. The finding was reported today across News Ltd media including the Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail, Herald Sun, West Australian and Adelaide Advertiser.
Do Something founder Jon Dee said, “the Rudd Government has failed to honour its election promise to impose a national plastic bag ban”.
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Posted 04 May 2009
Do Something Founder Jon Dee speaks to Geraldine Doogue on ABC Radio National Breakfast about South Australia’s state-wide ban on plastic bags in every retail outlet. Jon Dee praises the state’s initiative and says it looks to be the catalyst for a nation-wide plastic bag ban. [+]
Posted 04 May 2009
In the wake of the SA bag ban, today's SMH reports Do Something founder Jon Dee's comments that the federal government has broken an election promise by failing to ban plastic shopping bags by last year. "State environment ministers have also bottled out on delivering their plastic bag phase-outs", said Dee.[+]
Posted 01 May 2009
Environmentalists campaigning against the use of disposable plastic bags have welcomed news that Target will ban plastic bags from 1 June, the ABC reports. Do Something founder Jon Dee says the move means millions of bags will be kept out of the environment.[+]
Posted 01 May 2009
Do Something’s backing of Target's national ban on plastic bags was featured across News Limited metro media today, including the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail and Adelaide Advertiser. Jon Dee, founder of Do Something and the Ban the Bag campaign, said “Target's ban coupled with the ban in South Australia show that a national ban is now inevitable, as plastic bags move onto the endangered species list."[+]
Posted 01 May 2009
The Age reports that from 1 June shoppers at Target can bring their own bags, buy a reusable bag for $1 or a compostable corn starch bag for 10 cents. The ban is a "major breakthrough" said Jon Dee, founder of Do Something and the national campaign to ban bags.
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Posted 27 December 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the failure of a national solution to the problem of plastic bags and interviews Do Something founder Jon Dee.
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