Paphos Life

Ooops!

Not much chance of encouraging people to take home their rubbish from the beach and the picnic sites....

As of next year, consumers in Cyprus will be charged for plastic bags at supermarkets as a bill aiming at harmonising national legislation with the EU is expected to be voted by parliament in the fall, officials said on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the environment department presented the bill to the House environment committee, aimed at preventing or reducing the impact of packaging and packaging waste on the environment.
Cyprus was supposed to introduce this measure by November 2016, but was given two months’ time in June by the EU, to show progress on the matter.
“The bill is ready. We will discuss it in our first meeting right after the summer holidays, and it must be passed by the House plenum in September. The measure must be in place as of January 1, 2018,” Greens’ MP and member of the environment committee, Charalambos Theopemptou told the Cyprus Mail.

I wonder how the discussion of that bill will go?

http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/07/13/134580/

Given the success the tax had in the UK, I wish it well.

People will still buy some of them, and will chuck them out as before, still causing pollution problems.
Bag tax - that is all it is. As though we haven't got enough taxes already.
Geoff.

Not at all. It was widely derided before it was introduced in the UK but soon became a resounding success.

Dominic wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:19 am Not at all. It was widely derided before it was introduced in the UK but soon became a resounding success.

I will be very surprised if it is such a success here in Cyprus, where folks chuck everything you can imagine out of their cars.
I hope I am proved to be wrong. But I am not holding my breath!
Have a nice plastic-free day.
Geoff.