Perth councils split on plastic bags, East Fremantle votes to ban

THE Town of East Fremantle will become the first council in WA to ban shops from giving away plastic bags.

The council this week voted to introduce the ban, which, if approved by the McGowan Government, comes into force in six months time.

Fremantle, Cockburn, Joondalup and Stirling are among the other councils dotted across Perth considering local laws banning single-use plastic bags.

The situation is a result of the McGowan Government’s pre-election policy that individual councils introduce their own local bans.

It means, for example, that by the end of the year supermarkets in Melville can hand out bags out for free but supermarkets in neighbouring East Fremantle and Fremantle will not….

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