date:Jan 03, 2019
d's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the country would phase out plastic bags within a year.
Were phasing out single-use plastic bags so we can better look after our environment and safeguard New Zealands clean, green reputation, Ardern told The Guardian. Every year in New Zealand we use hundreds of millions of single-use plastic bags. A mountain of bags, many of which end up polluting our precious coastal and marine environments and cause serious harm to all kinds of marine life, and al