In an un-expected move, China’s cabinet has completely banned super thin plastic bags and is imposing a compulsory charge on plastic carrier bags as of June 1st. The familiar plastic bags that we receive from grocery stores have become a major source of pollution for China, with estimates suggesting that Chinese citizens use as many as 3 billion plastic bags a day! The cabinet also announced that they plan on creating more incentives for companies separating bags out from waste for reprocessing.
Telegraph: China to ban free carrier bags
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How will they sniff glue?
January 10th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
This is a great move. I’d love to see the same thing happen in the U.S.
Patrick Byers
The Responsible Marketing Blog
http://responsiblemarketing.com
March 31st, 2008 at 4:30 am