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A total plastic bag ban on ultra thin plastic bags and a fee on plastic bags was introduced in China on 1 June 2008. This came into effect because of the problems with sewerage and general waste. One 2009 survey suggests that plastic bag use fell between 60 and 80% in Chinese supermarkets, and 40 billion fewer bags were used.
Additionally in January 2018, in response to the issue of plastic waste piling up at an alarming rate in landfills after the China ban, Western Australia announced laws to ban all retailers from using lightweight plastic shopping bags after 1 July, 2018. Victoria also declared rolling out its own plastic bag ban within the year.
China has a phased-in program of plastic bans from 2020 to 2025 on products from bags, to straws, to cutlery, to certain packaging, to items in hotels. [ 5 ] As of May 2024 [update] , 12 states in the United States (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington ...
Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...
The regulation of disposable plastic tableware and other plastic products in Hong Kong aims to reduce their use at the source to cut down on pollution, Hong Kong’s Environmental Protection ...
The Operation National Sword (ONS) was a policy initiative launched in 2017 by the government of China to monitor and more stringently review recyclable waste imports. [1] By 1 January 2018, China had banned 24 categories of solid waste and had also stopped importing plastic waste with a contamination level of above 0.05 percent, which was significantly lower than the 10 percent that it had ...
As of August 2018, over 160 countries, regions, and cities had enacted legislation to ban or put a fee on plastic bags with the aim to reduce the overall use of disposable plastic bags. [45] Outright bans have been introduced in some countries, [9] notably China which banned very thin plastic bags nationwide in 2008. [6]
The Act to Reduce Plastic Waste, filed by Sen. Becca Rausch, D-Needham, would expand the ban on single-use plastic bags throughout the state. It also addresses plastic straws and other food ...