Phase out of single-use bags welcome but decades late

By John Hanscombe
Updated July 18 2017 - 11:39am, first published 11:31am

There’s a haunting description in Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, about returning to his village after decades of imprisonment. The change he noticed most was plastic – littering the ground, blowing in the wind – a pox on the landscape that had not existed before he went to jail.

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