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Eco-friendly bags in Jbeil
13-7-2018
As part of efforts to protect the environment against plastic pollution, The municipality of Jbeil Byblos launched on Wednesday a new initiative to replace plastic bags with eco-friendly ones by end of the year. It urged commercial establishments and shops to start using bags that are made of biodegradable material or recyclable fabric. This initiative is first of a kind for it constitutes a serious and binding communique issued by a municipality to concerned institutions, while noting that the memo includes not only single use plastic bags consumed by the supermarkets and retail outlets but also ready for packing and food delivery bags and packages. On the campaign, the mayor of Jbeil, Wissam Zaarour, told Al Modon electronic portal that the decision comes in the framework of the municipality’s vision to reduce the risks of plastic waste and its catastrophic effect on human health and the environment. The city of Jbeil lies by the sea, he said, and the plastic bags need some 30 years to decompose in water, besides their adverse impact on health, fish resources and marine life. (AL Akhbar, Al Modon, July 13, 2018)
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