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Flat White

Virtue-signalling is in the bag

5 June 2018

3:28 PM

5 June 2018

3:28 PM

Today is World Environment Day. And to celebrate the occasion, Australians’ favourite oligopolies — Coles and Woolworths — are doing a neat spot of public relations and virtue-signalling.

The supermarkets’ announcements of new ‘green’ initiatives, made with much fanfare and back-patting, are fairly predictable: cutting food waste, phasing out single-use plastic bags and reducing plastic packaging.

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