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Plastic Bag Ban: Update

June 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Global Village recently conducted a survey in Beijing and discovered that

nearly 96 percent of all Beijing open food markets continue providing ultra-thin plastic bags and
nearly 85 percent offer plastic bags to customers free of charge, which is against the law.

It is certainly illegal for anyone to use (or produce for that matter) ultra-thin [...]

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