Plastic bag ban: What are the alternatives? – video

By the end of June, most of Australia's major supermarkets will have stopped handing out single-use plastic bags.

Woolworths, Coles, and the Queensland and Western Australian governments are all phasing out lightweight plastic shopping bags, potentially preventing billions of bags from finding their way into landfill or oceans.

But what is and isn't being phased out? What are the alternatives, and how effective will the policy be?