You might carry your lunch to work in it, line your rubbish bin with it or even pack your gym clothes in it — so could you live without the humble plastic bag?

This week the Liberal National Party (LNP) in Queensland vowed to phase out single-use plastic bags if elected at the next election.

Tips for living without plastic bags Separate your rubbish, learn what you can recycle

Separate your rubbish, learn what you can recycle Use composting bins to dispose of wet waste

Use composting bins to dispose of wet waste Don't line your bin, simple wash it weekly or as needed

Don't line your bin, simple wash it weekly or as needed Raise chooks to feed food scrap too

Raise chooks to feed food scrap too Be selective about what you buy - take glass containers and buy food in bulk

Be selective about what you buy - take glass containers and buy food in bulk Take plastic or green bags back to the supermarket to recycle

Take plastic or green bags back to the supermarket to recycle Try to use biodegradable bags

This would see Queensland join South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and Northern Territory in banning the bags.

Terrie-Ann Johnson, chief executive of Clean Up Australia, said people simply needed to make small changes to use them less.

"Once we get over the idea of, 'oh my gosh, what am I going to do about my bin liner', then we can work around having to have them in the first place," she said.

"We really don't need them, we've just become used to them."

She said many people relied on plastic bags as bin liners due to wet waste.

"In the old days we would separate waste better than we do now; many of us would have given the wet stuff to the chickens or the garden," Ms Johnson said.

"Now with many of us living in high-rises it makes it more difficult, but there are ways for us to separate better.

Many households use plastic bags to line their bins. ( 612 ABC Brisbane: Jessica Hinchliffe )

"When I was a child we would line our bin with newspapers to protect it from the food scraps that weren't clean or dry."

She said the best plastic bag ban roll-out to date had occurred in South Australia.

"They worked with retailers to take the bags out of the mix and replaced them with viable options," Ms Johnson told 612 ABC Brisbane's Emma Griffiths.

Talkback callers to 612 ABC Brisbane were overwhelmingly supportive of the proposal.

"The reusable bags need to be biodegradable too like hessian, cotton or hemp." — Jennifer from Holland Park.

"You really need to look at what the bags are made of to know what damage they do." — Cathy from Warner.

"There needs to be a tariff as that will make people remember to take reusable bags." — Emma from Carina.

Ms Johnson said many councils across Australia were also trialling domestic composting options.

"Great examples are like on Lord Howe Island, whose [residents] send their compostable waste to a central depot," she said.

"It's put through a vertical composting unit and comes back as gardening fertiliser.

"The wet stuff we throw out is quite valuable and if we can get it into the composting stream it can work really well."