Mexico City against plastic bags

The consumption of plastic bags in Mexico City is estimated at 20 million a day starting this Thursday and will be charged for them because of the new Law on Solid Waste.Want a bag? For two pesos. Or three, or one, or determine what each business. What is certain is that it will not be free in Mexico City from Thursday, with the entry into force of the new Solid Waste Act.
So the city government hopes reduce consumption of plastic bags, estimated over 20 million a day only in the Federal District.
The traditional bags that supermarkets often offer are produced using oil and depending on its thickness, can take hundreds of years to degrade themselves.
To soften the environmental impact from the August 19 merchants in Mexico City should charge customers for plastic bags, which also must be biodegradable.
Otherwise, they risk being punished with an arrest for 36 hours and fines ranging from 1,000 to 20,000 days of minimum wage.

Mexico City against plastic bags

The Solid Waste Act was passed in August 2009. Thereafter, the Environment Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the City had one year to study and determine the details of the standard.
But now that the date is in the offing, nor many of the capital's businesses are ready for change, nor is there consensus on the rules of law.

"We do not know. I still have not told us anything," he said Tuesday in a grocery store workers who help put the purchase and against to plastic bags.And that, in one of the major supermarket chains in Mexico.
In the "24 hours" in the corner, also belonging to a well-known business group, also had much more information unless they are "waiting for the company send a statement with the details".
Just a day before the entry into force of the law, neither biodegradable bags were available, no idea how much it would charge each.The law has been widely criticized. The National Association of Plastics Industries (Anipac) perhaps could be expected, but even the Green Party itself has strong objections.
From both perspectives agree that the wording of the law is ambiguous and therefore inapplicable consider sanctions.
"Just developing the regulations may be established by law as such," he told BBC Alberto Couttlolenc, Green Party deputy chairman of the Committee on the Environment of the Federal District Legislative Assembly.