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Animal Friends Demand Ban of Plastic Bags
Animal Friends filed an initiative with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Spatial Planning and Construction and to Mirela Holy, Member of Sabor, to ban the sale and distribution of plastic bags in Croatia.
Holy used the opportunity to ask the Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, during the MPs Inquiries Session, about the matter of possible ban or rescrictions on sale and use of plastic bags.
`A ban on distribution of plastic bags would reduce the problem of production and accumulation of the resulting waste in the nature, would save millions of animals that perish after they swallow or get entangled in plastic bags, and would preserve huge resources used to produce them`, say Animal Friends.
The organization lists examples of countries in Asia, Europe, Americas and the region trying to tackle the problem. They mention the case of Montenegro which currently reviews the possibility for a ban of distribution of plastic bag, with the aim to educate the citizens to replace them with textile or paper bags that don`t have detrimental effect on the environment and the animal life.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection of Croatia reviews the possibility to introduce system of buyout of plastic bags, but Animal Friends don`t think that would solve the problem completely.
`That would just increase the production and sale of plastic bags, while a ban and introduction of adequate replacements would completely solve the problem`, they say.
Every year, 500 billion plastic bags are distributed each year, and only one percent of them are recycled, due to high costs of recycling. The remaining 99% end in the nature, polluting seas, rivers and lakes and threatening millions of animals that often confuse them for food, with deadly consequences.
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