Banning plastic bags

The Director of the Policies at the Ministry of Environment, Pellumb Abeshi explains that for finding financial sources they will ask the increase of the environment tax and the effectiveness of its collection by the local administration.

“The waste management requires an economic-financial analyses and its cost. The cost will not be the same for the entire region, but will be calculated by an average. This tax level that is being applied today in local units, doesn’t cover the entire cost of waste management and this means that the local units must review the tax level and the way it is collected”, Abeshi declared.

The Ministry of Environment is planning a draft-decision for limiting and then banning the usage of plastic bags.

“We have proposed that until September 2012, all businesses that are focused on the production of plastic bags should adopt their technology and replace plastic bags with other bio-degradable bags. By January 2013 will enter into effect the decision that bans plastic bags from all trading units”, Abeshi declared.

The Ministry of Environment asked that by September 2012 should be banned the production of plastic bags that do not decompose, and then stop their import. The final step will be undertaken on January 2013, when these bags will be banned in all trading units. On the International Day of Earth, the Albanian Corpus of Volunteers, with the support of a group of MPs and public personalities launched the initiative for stopping the production of plastic bags. These materials that resist to the natural agents are the biggest environment polluters in Albania, which consumes 1.5 million of them.

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