BEIJING (AFP) - China will expand a ban on bags free supplies, State media, said, it tries to further curb his addiction to plastic to rid the country of the "white pollution" which obstructs the waterways, farms and fields.
Libraries and pharmacies across the country will soon be prohibited from giving free plastic bags, join the ranks of the supermarkets have been in charge for bags in shopping since June 1, 2008, the official news agency Xinhua reported.
That day, China also prohibited the production, sale and use of ultra-thin plastic bags, becoming one of only a few nations worldwide to take such measures difficult.
Citing Zhao Jiarong, Secretary General of the National development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Planner high economic of China, the report said that the Government would also intensify its crackdown on the illegal use of plastic bags.
But it did not say when the libraries and pharmacies would start charging for bags, they give to.
China - the most largest greenhouse gas emitter - has some of the worst water and air pollution in the world after rapid growth for more than 30 years has triggered environmental damage.
Nearly three billion plastic bags are used daily in China before the 2008 ban. Since then, according to the NDRC, people have used at least 24 billion plastic bags less each year, the report said late Saturday.
Dong Jinshi, vice President of the International Association of food packaging in Beijing, said the AFP late last year that plastic, up to 100 billion shopping bags have been kept out of landfills by law.
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