Reusable shopping bags in Hong Kong

Deputy Secretary for the environment in Hong Kong yesterday, Dr. Pan Jie bags distributed to the elderly to encourage them to bring along when shopping.
Starting today, visitors to shop in Hong Kong to Bring Your Own Bag, or else it needs for each plastic shopping bag to collect 5 green fees Kok. Mainland last year on plastic shopping bags after the implementation of the levy, at 0:00 on the July 7, the plastic shopping bags in Hong Kong will officially levy. It is reported that the levy scheme will be launched in phases, covering the first phase of the first chain or large supermarkets, convenience stores and personal health and beauty products store and so on, At present there are nearly 2,600 businesses participate in the project.

Levy on retailers to be registered with the government

Hong Kong Government in July last year, the formal adoption of "Product Eco-responsibility Bill", plastic shopping bag environmental levy program is implemented under the Ordinance in the first plan. Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau said the levy scheme is to provide direct economic incentives to encourage people to switch to reusable shopping bags, thereby reducing the abuse of plastic shopping bags.

Today (July 7, 2009), the levy of the retailers covered by the plan (which specifies retailers) may not be free distribution of plastic shopping bags, and its customers must have access to plastic shopping bags every 5 gross pay environmental protection costs money. It is understood that participation in the levy of the business plan are required to pre-register, as of today there are 2600 business registration levy. Members of the public can query the registry of Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department's website list of registered businesses.

Businesses to provide pre-packaged form to send plastic bags

According to the levy plan, the public to buy pre-packaged plastic bags loaded draft hand products, there is no need to pay an extra 5 angle of environmental protection costs. Levy on plastic bags come into operation today, there is an indisputable source for producers, have been offering pre-packaged goods to the "legal loophole."

Hong Kong's plastic industry, said a spokesman at the meeting on the draft received a plastic bag in hand orders for the same period last year fell admission, but for the same period of pre-packaged business volume of equipment installed or large plastic bag demand by the orders last month rise in the same period last year into a 2-3 orders mainly from the cleaning supplies such as bleach and food such as biscuits and other distributors. In Jordan, a Wellcome supermarket, journalists found that more than 10 kinds of pre-packaged goods sales, such as the six installed distilled water, detergent, cleaning agent.

Wellcome and PARKnSHOP said the manufacturer has been providing pre-packaged goods, this is just publicity and promotion practices are not set up charges for plastic bags, supermarkets will not take the initiative for pre-packaged products.

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