Plastic Bags Usage Europe

Averaging just 4 bags per person per year.

Plastic bags usage europe.

Under the eu members must reduce their average plastic bag consumption from 200 bags per person in 2015 to 90 bags per person in 2019 and 40 bags per person by 2025. Following the introduction of the tax usage dropped from. By 1979 plastic bags were controlling 80 of the bag market in europe. They must also ensure all.

Some 30 of all the generated plastic waste is collected for recycling and recycling rates by country vary a lot as shown in the infographic. In europe energy recovery is the most used way to dispose of plastic waste followed by landfill. Portugal has seen a drop in excess of 85. The european parliament has voted for a complete ban on a range of single use plastics across the union in a bid to stop pollution of the oceans.

Half of the plastic collected for recycling is exported to be treated in countries outside the eu. Europe has been very active in its fight against plastic bags. Plastic bags were later introduced in the us with companies marketing the new product as superior to ordinarily paper bags. In ireland a 22c plastic bag tax has reduced usage by as much as 90.

Kroger and safeway supermarket chains adopted the use of plastic bags in 1982 with other chain stores soon following suit.