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New Zealand ban plastic produce bags
July 11 , 2023
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- New Zealand has become the first country in the world to banned single-use produce bags at grocery stores.
- Effective July 1, they also are being asked to carry their own reusable bags for fruits and vegetables.
- The latest move is part of a wider government campaign against single-use plastics.
- In July 2019, New Zealand no longer allowed stores to provide single-use shopping bags with handles that are made of plastic up to 70 microns in thickness.
- The new ban will eliminate 150 million plastic produce bags from circulation each year or 17,000 plastic bags every hour.
- In October, it proposed taxing the greenhouse gases produced by farm animals like sheep and cattle.
- The world's first scheme will see farmers paying for agricultural emissions in some form by 2025.
- The country's farming industry accounts for about half of its emissions.
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