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"en.20150428.26.2-409-750"2
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"The current EU-wide consumption of lightweight plastic bags is having a significant detrimental impact on our environment. This proposal seeks to reduce this unsustainable consumption from an EU average of 198 bags per capita to 90 in each Member State by 2020. This proposed change to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive will enable Member States to avail of a broader range of instruments, such as levies or marketing restrictions, to achieve this. Ireland’s plastic bag levy, introduced in 2002, has proven that these measures can have instant positive effect – plastic bag consumption in Ireland reduced immediately from 328 per capita to 21. The proven success of these measures means the targets set out in this proposal are very achievable and it therefore has my full support."@en1
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