Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

I paid 40 cents for a paper bag while shopping at my local supermarket the other week.  40 cents.  Remember when they used to cost 10 cents? Back in the day when they swapped them out for plastic bags when they banned those – which used to be free.  40 cents.  And guess what they had printed on the side of this paper bag that you buy to put your groceries in.   They had printed little Christmas trees for goodness sake.  So you chop down trees, you make paper bags and then you print more trees on them – we're supposed to be saving the planet.  This is stupid, it's dumb and it's 40 cents.  It's a lot of money.  It's a lot more than free, which is what we used to get the plastic bags for.  And they're not reusable. You put a 2-litre milk in there, it's wet, it's soggy and it just falls straight through.  It's not a reusable thing.  People are probably over the paper bag thing and used to it by now. Take your own bags is the other thing, but I forgot, so