Indonesian city outlaws plastic bags as campaigners push for wider bans
date:Dec 06, 2018
a Jakarta-based campaigner with Greenpeace Indonesia. We are pushing other city governments to apply this kind of regulation.

Globally, between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags are used annually, according to industry estimates, with fewer than 10 percent recycled and many ending up in the ocean. Some 8 million tonnes of plastic is dumped into oceans every year, killing marine life and entering the human food chain, according to the U.N. Environment Program.

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