The Interior Committee of the Knesset approved a law proposal in the system to be moved to the Knesset plenum for second and third sets of voting for passage this week. The law it approved is the law meant to minimize the number of plastic bags in use by the public.
The law proposed initially was meant to do away completely with plastic bags by forcing supermarkets to charge a lot of money per bag. The proposal was adjusted and now will force supermarkets to charge just 10 agorot per plastic bag. As well, the law will only apply to large supermarket chains and not to local neighborhood small shops. These changes will effect the minimization of the use of plastic bag use, and not become a burden to the public.
Also, supposedly the use of plastic bags cost the supermarket chains about 88 million nis per year. The public pays for that through higher prices on the items bought in the stores. Supposedly, saving most of that money for the supermarket chains will allow them to lower prices.
sources: Ch10 and Ladaat
Ha ha ha. I can't wait to see if a single supermarket lowers prices after this law is completed.
I am not much of an environmentalist. I use plastic bags, though I try to reuse them as much as possible. I recycle, but only when it is not overly difficult,... so I don't really have much of a problem with plastic bags and the entire issue. If they ban it, fine, if not - not. What I don't get is this contradictory position - we want to get rid of them but not make it too difficult for people so we will let them continue using them. Either get rid of them or leave us alone.
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