Shadow Minister for Environment Kate Washington visited the Nambucca last week ahead of the upcoming vote to ban single-use plastic bags in NSW.
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The private members Bill passed 18-16 in a "shock" Upper House vote at the end of September after the two Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MPs did not show up for the vote.
It will come before the Lower House at the next sitting of Parliament.
"Mid North Coast residents deserve to know how local MP Melinda Pavey will vote," Ms Washington said.
"The fact that NSW is the only state in Australia that hasn't banned single-use plastic bags reflects shamefully on this Government.
Australians use more than four billion plastic bags every year - ten million or so each day - and we estimate 50 million of these plastic bags end up in our waterways and oceans.
"Thirty per cent of the world's turtles and ninety per cent of seabirds have now ingested plastic debris."
She was joined in Bowraville by Councillor Susan Jenvey to call on local member Mel Pavey to divulge to the public which way she intended to vote.
"People in this part of the world really value the environment. We have an incredible region with a pristine coastline and sensitive valleys and hinterland. It's up to us to reduce plastic pollution in our waterways and oceans, so we're calling on our local MP to bring NSW into line with every other state, and vote to ban single use plastic bags," Cr Jenvey said.
The Government has said they will be releasing their own 'comprehensive' plan to reduce a wider range of plastics, indicating they will likely vote to block the Labor-led Bill.
Mrs Pavey has confirmed she will vote in line with her party when the Bill comes before the Parliament.
"The Government will consider the detail of the Bill when it is presented to the Legislative Assembly," she said.
"While single-use plastic bags are a major contributor to pollution, the effort to tackle plastic waste however, is far greater than just banning some types of plastic bags.
"Hence, the government is pursuing a more comprehensive and lasting plastics plan."
Penny Sharpe, who introduced Labor's bill into the upper house, said the only thing stopping NSW Parliament from legislating the ban by the end of the month was "the petty politics of the government".
"The community do not care whose bill it is," Ms Sharpe said. "It has community support, it has business support, it can make a difference to our environment straight away.
"A holistic strategy to reduce plastic is a good idea but it is being used as a fig leaf by an environment minister who cannot get support around the cabinet table for a ban on single use plastic bags."
Supermarket giants Woolworths and Coles voluntarily phased out single-use bags in favour of reusable ones in their NSW stores last year.
In July, Coles claimed to have stopped 1.7 billion single bags ending up in landfill since removing them from checkouts a year ago, while Woolworths said it has issued about three billion fewer bags.
Ms Sharpe said that while the major retailers "account for 80 per cent of bags", a consistent ban was the "only way to address the problem and reduce plastic pollution for good".
