Environment

Germany to ban single-use plastic shopping bags

Germany plans to ban single-use plastic bags from next year, joining a growing movement to fight global pollution, the environment minister said Friday.

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German supermarket chain Aldi set to charge for fruit and veg bags

Discount chain Aldi is to charge customers a fee for disposable fruit and vegetable bags in future as part of plans to cut down on plastic waste.

Environment

Supermarket giant Rewe ditches plastic bags for good

Rewe, Germany’s second largest supermarket chain, is banning plastic bags from its stores, a move it says will save 140 million of them from ending up in the trash each year.

shopping

Retailers plan 20-cent charge on plastic bags

Forgetting your own bag when you head to the supermarket could become much more expensive from April 2016, as retailers have suggested that ordinary plastic bags should cost 20 cents each in advice to the government.

European Union

Greens call for 22 cent tax on plastic bags

The Greens are calling for a a 22 cent tax on plastic bags – a move that the European Union Commission has thought about but not implemented, the <i>Bild</i> newspaper reported on Saturday.

Environment

Greens call for plastic bag levy to reduce use

The Greens are calling for a compulsory levy to be imposed on plastic shopping bags, in an attempt to copy Ireland where such a rule has reduced the number of such bags in use by 90 percent.