SYDNEY, July 1 (Xinhua) -- A ban on single-use plastic bags in Australia's Queensland state came into effect on Sunday, in the latest major effort to reduce the impact of the items on the country's environment. "Queenslanders use close to one billion of these plastic shopping bags per ...
Queensland set to ban single use plastic shopping bags 机译:昆士兰州将禁止一次性塑料购物袋 获取原文 获取原文并翻译 | 示例 获取外文期刊封面目录资料 开具论文收录证明 >> 页面导航 摘要 著录项 相似文献 相关主题 摘要 The Queensland Government has received overwhelming support for a ban on s...
Realizing the negative impacts of single-use plastic bags, the states of Western Australia and Queensland have already decided to ban their use starting July this year. The state of Victoria is also set to introduce a single-use plastic bag ban this year. Following this, New South Wales will...
Most of these bans target thin single-use plastic carrier bags or imports of non-biodegradable bags. Some, such as the one inAntigua-Barbuda, include other single-use or problematic items, such as foam coolers and plastic utensils. A few measures – notably,Kenya's plastic bag law– impose ...
are lauded as examples of successful implementations of a plastic bag ban. There are, however, a number of negative impacts surrounding the ban that illustrate the complexity of apparently simple regulatory action. The ban on the manufacture, sale and use of plastic bags in both countries comes ...
South Australiawas the first state to ban non-degradable plastic bans in 2009, and theAustralian Capital TerritoryandNorthern Territoryfollowed suit in 2011. Single-use plastic bags will be banned fromQueenslandby 2018, and Tasmania is set to become the first state in Australia to phase outsingle...