It's finally official! Plastic bags banned from January 1st 2011! This was confirmed by Roberto Menia, Undersecretary for the Environment, following an interpellation sent to the Chamber by Giulia Cosenza (Fli), and made it known that from the beginning of next year, to go shopping or transport objects and goods, the traditional plastic bags will be replaced with biodegradable ones.
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It's finally official! Plastic bags banned from 1 January 2011! He confirmed it Roberto Menia, Undersecretary for the Environment, following an interpellation sent to the Chamber by Giulia Cosenza (Fli), and made it known that from the beginning of next year, to go shopping o transporting objects and goods, traditional plastic bags will be replaced with those biodegradable.
As you will remember, the plastic bags should have retired already at the beginning of this year, according to paragraph 1130 of the Financial 2007 which provided for the ban on producing and marketing shopping bags made with non-biodegradable materials. However, the 2007 maneuver had the "small" flaw of not to contain the implementing decrees and the relative the ban was postponed by one year, even if there was still no official confirmation that arrives today, at least in words.
"The Ministry of the Environment is promoting a massive and widespread public opinion information campaign - the undersecretary said - to make it aware of this important new legislation, thus complying with its institutional tasks".
In fact, in order to raise public awareness on these issues and get citizens used to this new idea, the government has in the meantime planned a program that aims to gradually contract the production of traditional plastic bags, to reduce their marketing over time, up to the definitive stop.
To bring this aim to fruition, the government has allocated a million euros, which will also be used to analyze the life cycle of biodegradable bags and the functioning of the capillary distribution of the new Mater-Bi bags. But above all, we add, the use of reusable bags.
Verdiana Amorosi
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