Surabaya Prohibits The Use Of Plastic Bags In The Market, If Violating Sanctions

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SURABAYA - The Surabaya City Government in East Java Province prohibits the use of single-use plastic bags in modern and traditional markets in order to reduce plastic waste. The use of plastic bags issued on March 9, 2022. Head of the Surabaya City Environment Service Agus Hebi Djuniantoro said that the regulation will be enforced after the city government has socialized the regulation for 30 days until April 9, 2022. and trade associations, so that they know about this rule," said Hebi in Surabaya, Saturday, March 19. During the socialization of the regulation regarding the reduction of the use of plastic bags, he continued, the Environment Agency campaigned for the use of environmentally friendly shopping bags to residents and traditional market managers, pa. modern sar, convenience store and restaurant.

"If people want to shop at shopping centers, traditional markets, supermarkets, and restaurants, we urge them to use environmentally friendly bags, so that later no one will sell or provide plastic bags," he said, quoted by Antara. the use of plastic bags is enforced, business actors in the city of Surabaya are no longer allowed to provide single-use plastic bags for buyers or users of their products. as well as other government coercion aimed at stopping violations," he said. The Surabaya City Government formed a task force whose members include the Civil Service Police Unit to conduct socialization and enforce regulations on reducing the use of single-use plastic bags. Reducing the use of single-use plastic bags opens up opportunities for micro, small and medium enterprises to produce and sell eco-friendly shopping bags as a substitute for single-use plastic bags. modern markets, supermarkets, or restaurants," he said. The Surabaya City Government hopes that the ban on the use of single-use plastic bags in activities in modern markets and traditional markets can reduce up to 50 percent of the approximately 111,300 tons of plastic waste generated in its area every year.