New Zealand to phase out single-use plastic bags

摘要

NEW ZEALAND has announced recently that it will phase out plastic shopping bags over the next year to protect the environment and its reputation as a clean, green country. "Every year in New Zealand we use hundreds of millions of single-use plastic bags-a mountain of bags, many of which end up polluting our precious coastal and marine environments and cause serious harm to all kinds of marine life," Efe news quoted a government statement as saying.