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CANBERRA, Australia – Australian supermarket workers found themselves at the forefront of a violent consumer reaction to measures to ban single-use plastic bags, an implicated minority abusing cashiers and a customer putting his hand to the throat. Retail giants Woolworths and Coles, which account for about 70 percent of Australia's supermarket trade, announced new targets last month to reduce plastics and packaging in response to customers wanting a greener shopping experience .
But the union of their employees, the Association of Employees of the Distribution Sector, said that some customers had reacted badly to the reusable plastic bags for single use replaced by 15 reusable bags of one cent Australian (11 cents)
. a lack of free plastic bags on an employee of a Woolworths supermarket in Mandurah City, on the west coast, June 22 – two days after the ban It began in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, said Assistant Secretary of Western Australia, Ben Harris, in 1965
. I do not know how much pressure he has applied, but any physical contact is appropriate and especially if it is from behind, I imagine it particularly intimidating, "he adds. 39, state of Woolworths, Karl Weber, said the police were contacted, incident and the employee was offered support.The client had been banned from the store.
"The safety of our team is of the most importantly and we will not tolerate any abusive behavior towards them under any circumstances, "said Weber in a statement
.that their reusable bags would be donated for free for 10 days until Sunday, July 8 while the customers would be accustomed to the absence of single-use bags.
Coles introduced its ban on single-use bags as of July 1 and opened all cases
. Queensland environment Leeanne Enoch predicts Customers bringing their own bags to supermarkets would soon become second nature.
"It will take some time for some members of the mbad market, our audience to get used to remember to take their reusable bags, but it will not take long before many of us do not use it as a daily practice, "she said.
The union launched a public information campaign In addition to complaints about the cost of bags, the union said that customers put pressure on staff to overload the reusable bags, that they are fewer and that they handle the unhygienic bags that customers brought with them.Before Woolworths and Coles take Of the measures, half of the eight states and territories of Australia had already banned by law the single-use plastic bags
., and Western Australia joined South Australia. , Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the Territory of the Australian capital
But the most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria – where live more than half of the Australian population. 19659002] The European Union has proposed to ban plastic products, such as straws, to reduce waste that damages beaches and oceans.
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