Usage, selling of disposable plastic bags forbidden in Moldova
12:11 | 01.01.2019 Category: Social
Chisinau, 01 January /MOLDPRES/ – The use and selling of disposable plastic bags is forbidden since 01 January. A law in this regard was passed in parliament this summer and has entered into force gradually since 2019.
According to the law, both the marketing and the use of disposable plastic bags will be prohibited. For breaching the law provisions, the economic agents, as well as the citizens, will be fined.
The new document takes effect gradually from 2019, initially for large commercial units, then for small ones.
The authors of the law propose replacing plastic bags with paper, cloth or starch.
According to official data, each citizen annually uses at least 140 plastic bags that decompose in over 100 years.