China to charge for plastic shopping bags
The country will charge for plastic shopping bags starting June 1st. For stores and supermarkets, the price set for each plastic bag is essential to the new policy.
For the new policy, our company is taking actions. We provide various types of recyclable shopping bags from our designers.
Plastic bags ban around the world
The English village of Modbury in south Devon became the first plastic bag-free town in Europe in May, 2007. London’s 33 councils are planning to ban ultra-thin bag in 2009 and tax others. French lawmakers have voted to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags by 2010, but some stores have done so on their own. Ireland passed a plastic bag tax in 2002, the tax has created an initial 90 percent drop in bag use. In Italy, an outright ban will be introduced in 2010.San Francisco became the first and only U.S. city to outlaw plastic grocery bags in April this year. The ban is limited to large supermarkets. The state of New Jersey is considering phasing them out by 2010, while New York City is forcing large retailers to recycle plastic bags.In Bangladesh, discarded bags have been blamed for blocking drains and contributing to floods, the country banned them in 2002.The Australian environment minister wants supermarkets to phase out the bags nationwide by the end of this year.In Africa, Rwanda and Eritrea have banned plastic bags outright. Other countries including South Africa and Kenya have minimum thickness rules.