I kind of can understand and it may be a matter of time to get used to it. Having to bring our own shopping bags was annoying at the start but has now became the norm. Pretty sure we will adjust it just will take time.

Actually I’m in Full Agreement with this decision!!! Mothers will just have to use an alternative (as ours did!!)
I did not use PLASTIC at my childrens parties !!! ????????????

I agree that Coles could do more about their own packaging of products. But that doesn’t mean this is bad – years ago we went to Ikea and bought plastic plates, cups and cutlery. We’ve used them for parties ever since. It really isn’t that hard to wash them. Also it saves a lot of money.

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  • • mom93821 replied
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  We wash and reuse plastic ware too.

I’ll be happy when the fast food outlets also stop plastics …since there is a lot of roadside litter caused by people just chucking the finished take-aways out the car window…. I regularly plog and pick up plastic forks and spoons, along with those styrofoam contrainers, wrappers, bags, empty drink cartons etc….. When ever a fast food outlet opens I feel sad because that just means the highway is going to get more litter for several kilometers around. I can’t understand who would do it…. teenagers? (aren’t they meant to care about the planet) or older people just being lazy drunk?

Settle down you bunch of overreacting Karen’s! Aldi stocks paper single use products. Surely the other chains will just do the same. Your ‘no washing up after toddler parties’ won’t have to change ????

I hardly use plastic plates cup and cutlery so I would be great if we could phase it out and use something else. But I worry about disposable nappies more they take years to break done

I thought you could recycle them anyway. If not why aren’t they looking at making ones that can be.

Good thing to do for the environment.

I support paper cups but paper/ cardboard plates just don’t work if you’re having a BBQ and trying to cut up meat, which of course there would be no cutlery for either…. but hey I’m sure if you planned in advance you could buy this stuff online. It’d just be more expensive, but we’re used to that!

The phasing out of plastic tableware will not impact on us.

I feel supermarket’s not selling them will stop people that use single use plastic because they are lazy to wash.
But for party’s for kids they should be available at a part store like Lombard I think it’s called. Places like that should have them, but you need to go out of your way to get them.
Stopping lazy people I get as I’ve met a few over the years. Does make it hard for us mums sure but we just need to drive or order online instead.
We all can work around issues to help the planet.

Absolutely love it. It takes hundreds of years to breakdown!! You will die before the plastic plate is gone. Plastic is fantastic but not for use on single use items. Great move. Bring it on sooner. You can buy compostable plates, knives and bowls.

Its like all things that change………takes a bit of getting used to but we’ll get there!! Will be a little inconvenient especially for kids parties but its all foe the long term best

I think it’s a good thing , less plastic around the better.

Whilst it’s great for the environment, it’s people like me who recycle and don’t leave rubbish lying around who are losing out. It’d be great if they came up with an affordable biodegradable or bamboo single-use alternative. There’s probably going to be arguments, comparable to the toilet paper wars, to grab the last of the plastic plates, before they’re gone from Coles.

There will still be paper, bamboo and wood single use crockery and cutlery. It’s only the plastic stuff that’s going. This article makes it sound like there is no alternative. Terrible and biased journalism I think.

What about all the other plastic and waste products in the stores? Fruit wrapped in plastic? Nappies that take over 500 years to decompose. Removing these items does not show any commitment to the environment.

I’ve used paper plates since many years and think they’re a great alternative to plastic ! they’re good for craft projects too 😉

In 50 50 on this one – thinking of paper plates as well.
Imagine having a heap of people at your house for a party, what would they use to eat off? I highly doubt people would have that many washable plates lying around nor the room to store it all!
But it is nice to think about the environment more often.

Paper or melamine plates, bamboo or reusable plastic cutlery … I’m all for this move! Well done to coles! I have some plastic plates, which I reuse along with the “single use” cutlery. So long as it doesn’t break it can be washed and reused!