It depend on the bags.Footy Chick wrote: Victoria also still give out free bags too - much to my surprise on my recent visit to Horsham.
Anyhoo, just on the biodegradable thing - I can prove that the green bags are in fact biodegradable.
I put one on the washing line about 9 months ago and kept forgetting to take it off the line for some reason. There ain't much of it left, the handles survived and not much else
I'm not sure is they still are, but a lot of the early ones were being made of polypropylene.