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A furious shopper has divided opinion after slamming Woolworths for selling plastic wrapped cucumbers despite its ban on single use plastic.
Australian journalist James Massola shared a picture on Saturday to Twitter of shrink-wrapped continental cucumbers being sold at a Woolworths store in Canberra.
The national affairs editor, at The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, claimed the packaging defeated Woolworth's 'terrific' ban on plastic.
Australian journalist James Massola shared a picture to Twitter of shrink-wrapped continental cucumbers being sold at a Woolworths store in Canberra (pictured). Massola claimed the plastic wrapped cucumbers defeated the supermarket giant's plastic ban
'I think the ACT government's plastic bag ban was a terrific decision,' Massola wrote.
'But the decision by Woolworths to individually plastic-wrap cucumbers (and some other vegetables) defeats the purpose of a plastic ban.
'Also, why on earth do cucumbers need to be wrapped?'
Massola's post elicited a range of responses with many sharing in the journalist's outrage.
'Agreed. Here we are trying to reduce the volume of plastics in our life and our environment and they make it unavoidable!' one person wrote.
'Woolies were all anti-plastic
