Bring your own: No more single-use green plastic bags at Woolies from this week [Video]

In line with its 2018 commitment, Woolworths is scrapping single-use plastic bags from it’s all its food stores from this week.

– Four years ago, Woolworths began a campaign to stop using non-recyclable plastic packaging by 2022.

– This week marks a milestone for the retailer which will no longer make single-use plastic shopping bags available to customers.

– It comes as last week Woolies trialled it’s ‘Bring a bag, take a bag’ initiative at three of its stores in Cape Town

Just days after Woolworths rolls out it ‘Bring a bag, take a bag’ initiative at four stores in Cape Town, the retailer is also set to announce the scrapping of it’s green single-use plastic bags at all of it’s foodmarkets.

In 2018, Woolworths began its campaign to stop using non-recyclable plastic packaging, including plastic shopping bags, by 2022.

Instead, it began a rollout of black fabric shopping bags …