2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
A new directive from the European Parliament (EP) puts an end to 2019's free plastic bags. The new rules actually require that plastic bags be charged throughout Europe. The law affects envelopes of a certain thickness - these are plastic bags that are less than 50 microns thick.
The only exceptions will be bags that are less than 15 microns thick - they are most often used on greenhouse stalls. The directive allows all Member States of the European Union to choose for themselves how to limit the use of plastic bags.
One option is to reduce their use to 90 per person by the end of 2019 and respectively to 40 by the end of 2025. The other option that countries have before them is to ensure that by the end of 2018, citizens will not use plastic bags for free.
The proposal to remove or make compulsory payments for plastic bags came from the Green Group, and in particular from Margaret Auken.
It describes the adoption of these rules as a victory and another step towards environmental protection.
This is a huge environmental problem, although many people do not realize it - billions of plastic bags fall into nature as untreated waste and harm birds, fish, etc., adds Auken.
All Member States of the European Union have a year and a half to implement the measures. Evidence shows that plastic bags are actually the most common garbage after cigarette butts. Each plastic bag decomposes in about 500 years, and it takes only a few seconds to produce it, the EP explains.
The average European uses more than 190 bags a year, 90 percent of which are plastic. More than 90 percent of seabirds have already ingested polyethylene waste, environmentalists say. In 2010, more than eight million plastic bags were released into the environment in Europe alone. We can meet them everywhere - in rivers, fields, on roads, etc.
In our country, plastic bags have been paid for for several years - with the exception of some markets, where they still happen to give them away for free. The bags usually cost between 20 and 30 stotinki, which, it turns out, is quite a high price - in Strasbourg the bags were 3 cents, which is 6 stotinki.
According to data, in 2010 the Bulgarian citizen used on average a little over 240 bags for single use and about 175 for multiple use. Looking at the consumption of other European countries, Bulgaria ranks 11th in the use of plastic bags.
For comparison - in Finland and Denmark each citizen uses an average of only four bags per year, and in Portugal, Slovakia and Poland their use is 100 times higher.
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