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There have been campaigns advocating for a boycott of products made in China.Commonly cited reasons for boycotting China include the alleged low quality of products, human rights issues, territorial conflicts involving China, support for separatist movements within China, and objection to more specific matters relating to China, including the government's mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A growing number of countries have instituted plastic bag bans, and a ban on single-use plastic (such as throw-away forks or plates), and are looking to spread bans to all plastic packaging, plastic clothing (such as polyester and acrylic fiber, or any other form of unnecessary plastic that could be replaced with an easily biodegradeable, non ...
Honghu, Hubei began an official investigation into a controversial fine of ¥42630 (US$6110.54) on a local pharmacy for selling 44,000 single-use masks stocked at ¥0.6 (US$0.086) each for ¥1 (US$0.143) each, as it violated a province-wide ban on selling medical items related to the epidemic 15% above the stocking price during the epidemic ...
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 ...
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In October 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases reported: "While the world is struggling to control COVID-19, China has managed to control the pandemic rapidly and effectively." [ 3 ] The Chinese government has been criticized for censorship , which observers have attributed to a culture of institutional censorship affecting the country's press ...
Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. Reusable bags must be at least 2.25 mils. [363] British Columbia: Victoria: 17 December 2017: 1 July 2018: Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. [364] Manitoba: Leaf Rapids: 22 March 2007: 2 April 2007: Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. [365] Thompson: 27 September 2010: 31 December 2010: Single-use ...