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PLASTIC BAGS: When will? (Letter to the media)

Dear Sir,

we all agree that the ban on plastic bags (shopping bags) makes sense, because it means reducing plastic waste of 200,000 tons per year, about 10% less of all plastics used in Italy. This is clearly, if made, is a good start of the process of reduction of plastic packaging, which creates many problems in the recycling of waste.

We must remember that in other EU countries, shoppers have been banned from an already-no, and then in Italy, as always, we're late.

We know that we use in place of the shopper bags or biodegradable bags.

But here the problems begin. In fact, several shops and supermarkets continue to use the shop-

for after January 1. Why? We are told we must exhaust the stock of bags. But how long will this exhaustion? There is a limit to the time, say, six months a year? And who controls the application of this rule? The municipal police, the police or who else? It provides for penalties for offenders? Who will set out the penalties? By Commission Regulation application, which does not yet exist, the national law or by rules issued by individual towns? And to whom these sanctions will be imposed: the shops, customers or both?

To conclude: the measure is sound and correctly and aligns us with the practices adopted in EU. To avoid that here this measure falls into the cauldron of the law inapplicable, we need the municipalities, armed with good will and common sense, and inspired by what happens in other European cities, is to be done to give practical solutions to the problem the elimination of plastic bags in commercial distribution, the first step to reduce plastic packaging, which means reduction of 'environmental pollution.

p. Union Consumer Protection, the Head of Environment Onlus

Fabio Tomei-335 - 52.111.06; www.utc-onlus.blogspot.com

Novara, 12/01/2011