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With the ushering in of the new Gregorian year, 2017, Israel’s new plastic bag law goes into effect.
The new law brings an end to the distribution of free plastic bags in the hope people will revert back to using reusable bags as in the days of the good old ‘sal’.
Today, via the Ministry of Environmental Affairs program, when one shops in a supermarket one will receive reusable cloth bags for every purchase over NIS 100. If one buys more, one receives more bags.
For those who cannot live without the plastic bags, one can purchase them at 10 agorot each.
The ministry reports that in supermarkets alone, Israelis last year used a staggering 1.6 billion plastic bags.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
Will Israelis once again go shopping with “sals” (baskets)? Who’ll be the first to sell them?
How nice that Israel goes Full Commie on getting between two people involved in legal business transactions. Grow up and stop controlling people. (Time, I suppose, for a yaer Hoffman lecture on why plastic should be halachically outlawed. )
That will be the only thing you can buy with 10agarot it’s a good way to get rid of your 10 Agarot coins
To NO. 2
There are lots of transactions between two people that modern society has determined pose a burden on third-parties and thus warrant regulation. These plastic bags end up in EY’s few landfills and waterways causing a wide range of environmental problems we all pay for. If its too much trouble for you to shop with a reusable sack, than pay the price for the bag.
Can’t they leave us alone
Yay Liberalism.
People REUSE good plastic bags. Make them holier than EY and they go in the garbage.
The bags are so rubbish just look at the picture how do they want us to reuse them