TY - Technical report AU - Andrew Macintosh AU - Amelia Simpson AU - Teresa Neeman PY - 2018 T1 - Regulating plastic shopping bags in the Australian Capital Territory: Plastic Shopping Bag Ban Act 2010 options analysis PB - Australian National University DO - https://doi.org/APO-228966 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/228966 AB - Plastics are synthetic materials made from a range of organic polymers that are capable of being moulded when soft. Most plastics are currently made from fossil fuels, typically the by-products from the processing of oil or natural gas. However, there are now a range of bio-based polymers that are used to make plastics, including bioethylene, polylactic acid (PLA) and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA). ER -