Single use plastic bags
Single use plastic bags
French MP’s have voted to ban single use supermarket plastic bags from 2016 to help protect the environment.
The decision was an amendment to a bill on biodiversity.
A voluntary agreement with retailers already led to a drastic drop in the number of plastic bags used at supermarket checkout counters, falling from 10.5 billion to 700 million between 2002 and 2011.
But the government is now focusing now on plastic bags in self-service fruit and vegetable sections.
More than 12 billion of them are still used in stores and supermarkets.
The draft bill intends to completely ban these non-recyclable single-use plastic bags.
Environmental campaigners say that shoppers use them for just 20 minutes on average but they take up to 1,000 years to degrade.
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About 10yrs ago the Irish Government put a plastic bag levy of 15 cents on plastic bags. The use of these bags dropped dramatically. We are not charged 22cents. Most people bring reusable bags with them now.
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