Resources

Below are the resources, and accompanying web addresses used in the development of the Bags Not campaign to date (5/04/2018).

• A European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy – EuropeanCommission
• Auckland City Council
• Better Futures Report
• Boomerang Bags
• Carrier bags: review of standards for biodegradable plastic bags – Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)
• Carrier bags: why there”s a charge – Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)
• Christchurch City Council
• Clean Seas
• Comparison of Environmental Impact of Plastic, Paper and Cloth Bags – Kirsty Bell and Suzie Cave – Northern Ireland Assembly
• Ellen MacArthur Foundation
• Evaluating the sustainability impacts of packaging: the plastic carry bag dilemma. By Helen Lewis, Karli Verghese and Leanne Fitzpatrick
• Excess Baggage, Reducing plastic bag waste in major cities of Cambodia – SWITCH-Asia Programme and 17 Triggers
• Future of the Sea: Plastic Pollution- Government Office For Science (UK)
• Life cycle assessment of supermarket carrier bags: a review of the bags available in 2006 – Environment Agency (UK)
• Ministry for the Environment
• New Plastics Economy
• Nobel Prize.org
• Ocean Plastics: The ecological disaster of our time
• Orb Media
• Plasticoceans.org
• Plastics NZ
• Presentation to the local Government and Environment Committee (NZ)
• Recycle.co.nz
• The English Plastic Bag Charge – Changes in Attitudes and Behaviour – Wouter Poortinga, Elena Sautkina, Gregory O.Thomas, Emily Wolstenholme – Cardiff University
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Visy Recycling
• Waste Management World
• WasteMINZ
• Wellington Council
• What a Waste : A Global Review of Solid Waste Management – World Bank Group

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