IRELAND WAS ONE of the first countries in the world to take on the plastic bag but the state of California in the US has taken the fight one step further.
Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed new laws to ban single-use plastic bags.
Plastic bags will disappear from large supermarkets in July 2015, while smaller grocers and newsagents will have until 2016 to phase them out.
The shops will then have to charge at least 10 cent for paper bags.
In an attempt to appease plastic bag makers, the State has provided $2 million funding so they can start producing reusable bags.
“We are doing away with the scourge of single-use plastic bags and closing the loop on the plastic waste stream, all while maintaining—and growing—California jobs,” said a victorious Senator Kevin de León who co-wrote the legislation.
This guy is just sorry the legislation wasn’t brought in across the world years ago.
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