According to a survey conducted by Wholesale Plastic Container Sets Factory
According to a survey conducted by Wholesale Plastic Container Sets Factory the plastics industry in Hong Kong showed that contrary to expectations, the implementation of plastic bag tax in Hong Kong, the local use of plastic bags instead of the total resin consumption increased by 25% or more, the industry has been implemented for 2-year-old plastic bag tax is really good for the environment question.
The survey found a plastic bag tax levy as originally foreseen, as the range of plastic bags are disabled (usually used in supermarkets and retail stores and cutting plastic bag T-bag) significantly reduced the consumption there. However, as an alternative type of thick non-woven bags and reusable plastic bags usage has soared, offsetting the reduction banned plastic bags, so from July 2009 tax on plastic bags since the beginning of all types The overall amount of plastic bags, up 27%.
Another survey, before the introduction of plastic bag tax, 700 million Hong Kong people use every day all kinds of plastic bags for the 78 tons -80 tons, and now the daily dosage of about 100 tons. Chamber of Commerce, said manufacturing plastic bags, plastic garbage bags used to produce the amount of up to 63% for the amount of nonwoven bags is jumped by 96%, while for the traditional cutting plastic bags and T- the weight of the plastic material were reduced by 68% and 20%. The Chamber of Commerce that lead to increased rather than decreased the amount of plastic bags is another main reason is the increased use of non-woven polypropylene bags, these bags can be reused and increasingly popular, their need for the amount of plastic shopping bags is a traditional 30 times -50 times.
These non-woven plastic bags need to be reused at least 30 times with the traditional plastic shopping bag consumption flat. Hong Kong government is now on whether to expand the scope of a plastic bag tax discussion, including in more retail stores, clothing stores or bookstores to implement taxes, rpet bag and allows retailers to retain their own plastic bag fee income, rather than as in the past on to the Government. Plastic bag tax in 2009, the first phase of implementation, about 3,000 large-scale retail stores, supermarkets, convenience stores and personal health care products and beauty products stores began charging for each plastic bag at HK $ 0.5.
Hong Kong environmental group believes that this measure yielded results, should be further extended to the city's other 60,000 retail outlets. The main local environmental group Friends of the Earth Hong Kong spokeswoman MichelleAu said, according to government statistics, the implementation of plastic bag use tax on merchants in plummeted by 77%. However, according to local Hong Kong newspapers reported that, because there are many shops not included in the scope of taxation, landfill disposal of plastic bags in Hong Kong last year, the number declined by only 5.7%. Manufacturing of plastic bags as a response to Chamber of Commerce survey, Au said that although the total consumption of plastics has increased, but she doubted whether caused by the plastic bag tax, increase in population or tourism development are the general economic may lead to increased use of plastic bags.
