It's a dilemma alright. What will we do when supermarkets phase out plastic bags?

What did we do before plastic bags? We used brown paper bags groceries were packed into, which had a life after shopping, like wrapping parcels, covering kids' school exercise books, putting rubbish in. My nana also used them with greaseproof paper to line baking tins when she made Christmas cakes.

People aren't interested in our environment anymore. It's all just too inconvenient.

Where will we put our rubbish? Here's an idea – food scraps into a compost bin or feed chooks. Wrap food scraps in all that paper that arrives in the mail box if those two options are not available to you, it worked okay years ago.

Most cans, glass, plastic containers can be recycled, glass can be reused for jams, pickles, preserves if you are so inclined, or storage in the man cave. Plastic containers can be used for storage also.

Some of the negative comments on social media about phasing out plastic bags are ridiculous and selfish by ignorant young people who know nothing different or just don't care.

So these people would rather our coastline be strewn with plastic and dead turtles? Only we can change this.

S Gussey, Omokoroa.