From tomorrow (1 January, 2011) Italy's hundreds of thousands of retailers will be banned from giving their customers plastic bags.
The Italian government is thought to be the first in the EU to outlaw the use of polythene bags (although Ireland imposed a 0.15€ levy on them in 2002 that drastically cut their use) and as Italians are plastic bag addicts, who use a fifth of all the bags distributed in the EU, the ban will make a very real difference.
More at the Guardian.
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