As the old saying goes, out of sight-out of mind. People living in the more crowded areas are shielded from seeing most of the rubbish that is caused by them because of the efficient garbage removal. In more remote areas where garbage removal is less organised, more rubbish is left lying around. It becomes kind of second nature for people.
Supermarket packaging, white goods in fact just about any packaging now is plastic. Postal envelopes flying all over the country side are almost an accepted part of the scenery.
Councils really aren't taking rubbish all that seriously but they should. In our little town in FNQ we have no glass bins, just a couple of so-so half-hearted Plastic bottles only bins. To take just one shopping bag of rubbish to the dump costs $14.

Doubt a single contributor is not aware we need alternatives individual, and just how bad things are,but look at what is proposed, in fact started from Sunday, like the other new chain has done for some time, we will pay 15 cents for what we are told are reusable plastic bags. many never get reused, and many end up in land fill, as all will in time, first what takes place at the last step in recycling? is some most or just a little in fact buried in land fill?things like kitchen liquid could be sold in a reusable, deposit paid, container,how do we carry our fried rice or salads home? will every returned container be clean? is it safe for workers and customers? straws can be the wax paper ones they once had been,even bared and the lid on drinks made with those fitted mouth pieces, who knows what we can do if we try

Belly,
We've had this system in place for about three months now & you'd be surprised how many shoppers are now bringing their own shopping bags. I myself had to buy about five 15Cent plastic bags because of not being used to the new system but now it's almost second nature.
Many keep the reusable bags in the car in case they forget the shopping bag. The lady at the refuse tip said this morning she sees a lot less plastic bags now after just three months. The packaging industry just has to follow suit & if plactic is the only logical way to wrap something than it should use recyclable materials.

I've seen people bringing in their clothes baskets
from their laundries to carry their groceries in.
That also seems to be working.

We have shopping bags in the cars.
Woolworths to take to Coles and vice-versa and Audi bags for Audi and the previous two.

meanwhile wind farms kills enormous amounts of birds. Oh well we are the generation of virtue signalling. So so moral!