Waste Act and Contaminated Soil to ban plastic bags for single use between 2013 and 2018, according to the timetable set at the time by the European Waste Framework Directive. Since 1 May, the Andalusian gravel each package to purchase a new tax, which ensures, in this community at least, that these items that generate mountains of waste are difficult to manage to stop being free. It's time for the plastic bags made from biodegradable corn, soybeans, barley, rice or potatoes, or bags, also green, made from natural fibers such as cotton, jute or bamboo.
According to the draft Law on Waste and Contaminated Land, which is now before Parliament and has the approval of the vast majority of Congress, is replaced by 2013 60 percent of single-use bags, which means that 40% to resist shall be subject to severe financial penalties as adopted in Andalusia, which has been denounced in Brussels by the English Association of Plastics Manufacturers (ANAIP) but will soon be imitated by other communities. By 2015, it has to reduce consumption of those containers , Which are a nightmare for the government when they become waste, in 70 percent, and 80% by 2016. Finally, in 2018 will be deleted disposable plastic bag, which will be the unsustainable economic history of the twentieth century.
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean there is a larger island that Spain does not appear in any tourist brochure. Has been created to gather thousands of tons of trash, mainly plastic bags and bottles are not biodegradable, where, for each part unit of plankton, there are six parts of plastic. These wastes are moved slowly through the ocean currents to a sector of the North Pacific known as the Great Pacific Garbage. Something similar is happening also in the North Atlantic (the Great Atlantic Landfill), off the coast of Florida, and could someday reach Europe.
Disasters like these that have pushed the ban on polythene bags and other plastics are not biodegradable and replaced by sustainable alternatives that nature itself can be eliminated.
sustainable alternatives are becoming more competitive and more when it will start implementing eco-taxes and other penalties associated with the use of petroleum. "It opens a good outlook for the manufacture of bioplastic bags and fabric as is the case in other European countries, where there has been a real boom of the biodegradable bags and multiple uses, "said Joaquín Pece, co-founder of ecological merchandising be green. This young company is making headway Galicia in the market for sustainable products and custom marketing companies, among others, made from bioplastic bags, raffia, woven or nonwoven cotton. These materials enhance the image of its clients by demonstrating a concern for the signing by the planet at a time which makes them safe from future penalties for use of polluting materials such as polyethylene bag.
"They are citizens with their daily habits who can turn around this situation and select the business premises where there is a commitment to reduce unnecessary use of such packaging, recently explained the Deputy Minister of Environment of the Principality of Asturias at a seminar on sustainability of commercial packaging.
good example is the Carrefour, they offer to their customers, the price of 5 cents per unit, bags made from potato starch with an identical look and the traditional use of polyethylene. They also offer the option - through approximately euro-raffia bag, which looks like a beach bag and, to be washable and very durable, it can used hundreds of times. In addition, customers can opt for other materials such as bags of cotton or nylon.
"bags should not be delivered for free in supermarkets," says Sonia Nettle, coportavoz of Green-Coordinator, as this encourages misuse. It is imperative that the current taxing plastic bags for the transition period as low as possible, as has been done in Ireland or England. This is the true responsible drinking. " Pedro Nogueroles
Agency (Dossier)
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