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These countries prohibit the use of plastic bags

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These countries prohibit the use of plastic bags, once they are caught and severely punished

At present, more than 40 countries and regions have made regulations on the use of plastic bags.

The policy on plastic reduction in Europe and the United States has been strengthened. The European Union has announced that plastic packaging will be recycled or reused by 2030, but most European countries are only now at the level of voluntary consumer reduction. France's plastic limit order was updated earlier this year to remove all cosmetics containing the particles. From 2020, household plastic cotton sticks and disposable plastic tableware will also be banned. Britain earlier this year proposed to ban plastic bags, bottles, plastic straws and other supplies for 25 years. Only California currently has a blanket ban on plastic bags, with the rest of the country paying for paper or plastic bags.

More than a dozen of Africa's 54 countries now have policies to limit plastic use. Eritrea banned plastic bags altogether as early as 2005. Other countries, including Tanzania (2006), Uganda (2007), Rwanda (2008), Mauritania (2013), Morocco (2016), Senegal (2016), somaliland (2017), Tanzania (2017) and Kenya (2017), have either banned plastic bags altogether or banned the manufacture, trafficking and use of plastic bags, with heavy penalties.

Asia's plastic restrictions have been effective. In 2002, Bangladesh became the first country in the world to ban plastic bags altogether. Plastic bags smaller than 0.05mm thick were banned in mumbai, India, in 2016, and plastic plates and cups were also banned in Sri Lanka. Southeast Asian countries have different policies on plastic bags. The government of yangon, the capital of myanmar, bans the manufacture, sale and storage of plastic bags. Malaysia in 2017 announced a federal straight district ban on the use of regular plastic bags. Other regions, such as Japan, have announced that free plastic bags will be banned from all retail stores from 2020, while China banned stores from providing free plastic bags, manufacturing, selling and using plastic bags less than 0.025mm thick in 2008. The south Korean government decided in 2018 that large supermarkets will ban single-use plastic bags.

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