date:Apr 24, 2014
er to ban, tax or charge for thin plastic bags. But the aim is to halve their use by 2017, compared to 2010 levels. The final target is to reduce their use by 80% by 2019.
The proposals call on member states to use taxes, levies, marketing restrictions or outright bans to end what has become a scourge of modern living.
Some 100 billion plastic bags are used in the EU every year, which amounts to around 200 per person. Eight billion of these carrier bags end up as litter.
Denmark, where bags a