Plastic bags: circulation ban all over the world
Plastic bags are the principle cause of increased environmental damage in all countries.
The campaign to ban their use is gaining more and more momentum everywhere. We can see how the problem is handled from one place to other in the world.
South Africa, in May 2003, bannedithe usage of thin plastic bags. In Eritrea, Ruanda and Somalia they ware banned on 2005. Tanzania introduced total prohibition in 2006, Kenya and Uganda put out of use thin plastic bags in 2007.
In Asia, Taiwan banned them in 2003. China, announced last January the ban of free distribution of plastic bags. That caused the closure of the biggest plastic bag factory, in Henan county.
Australia announced they will forbid the free use and usage by the end of 2008.
In 2002, Bangladesh imposed a total ban on thin plastic bags in the capital city of Dhana, after the block of the drainage system during a flash flood. That measure started the re-launch of local jute bag industry. Also at Mumbai, in India plastic bags were banned in 2000.
In Europe? In Italy they are in the backward. Only by 2010 will we introduce a total ban. The good practice comes from the Irish Republic; in 2002 they taxed the consumers of plastic bags, and usage fall by of 90%. Also France will ban them by 2010. The biggest supermarket group, Carrefour, banned their free distribution in 2007. Furthermore Belgium in 2007 applied a punitive tax like that in Ireland. In Switzerland, the government required that supermarket groups raise the cost of plastic bags in regard to costumer.
In Great Britain, the Modbury council was the first to outlaw plastic bags in 2007. Marks & Spencer last month declared their willingness to block the free distribution. Spain wants to halve the usage by 2009, while Germany and Holland have a special tax for plastic bags.
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