YACKANDANDAH’S only supermarket is set to follow its Jindera counterpart and ban plastic bags.
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The Foodworks will make the switch away from plastic bags by the end of May.
Owner Nick Cook said in a customer vote 85 per cent of shoppers backed the move.
“Yackandandah is very much that sort of way inclined and quite forward thinking, so it didn’t surprise me,” Mr Cook said.
The Jindera IGA supermarket will go plastic bag-free this week after 60 per cent of consumers supported the switch.
“We’ve got a lot of people now saying to us it’s wonderful and people saying they’re going to shop at Jindera – they’re going to come from Albury,” IGA owner Bob Mathews said.
He said “if someone complains” there will be plastic bags available for 20 cents.
The implementation of the ban will be guide for his family’s East Albury and Springdale Heights stores, Mr Mathews said.
More than 120,000 have signed a change.org petition calling on government bans on plastic bags in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia.
