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Since July 1st, France has banned them too. They were already forbidden is supermarkets anyways. Note that the biodegradable corn-based plastic bags are still a
by tajen 10y ago
Since July 1st, France has banned them too. They were already forbidden is supermarkets anyways. Note that the biodegradable corn-based plastic bags are still allowed.
- Freak_NL 10y agoThe Netherlands has this as well since this year. Putting a price on plastic bags actually seems to change people's behaviour — for the good. The law doesn't even stipulate a minimum price; as long as plastic bags aren't free, people will bother to bring their own.
- justinclift 10y agoInterestingly, the "biodegradable" bags seem kind of scam-ish. Apparently the PLA (corn based) ones only break down in a "commercial" composting environment. According to this article, that means 10 days at some specific temperature (the article says "70 degrees" but no more). http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/corn-plastic-to-the-rescue-126404720/?all http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/corn-plastic-to... Only cottoned onto this personally, after noticing the "compostable" bags I'd been using to hold vegetable scraps... weren't compositing in the home compost bin even many months later (nearly a year now). :/