Here at The Market Basket Co, we celebrate the movement away from single use plastic bags and towards more sustainable options. With many major grocery and chain stores now charging for reusable plastic bags, more and more people are getting in the habit of bringing their own bags (or baskets ??).

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Did you know that Australians are the second largest producers of waste in the world? Each of us send over 690 kilograms of waste to landfill each year, and one of the biggest culprits is the plastic bag.

As a collective, we Aussies use 3.92 billion plastic bags each year, dumping over