Turkey's number one agenda from January 1, is the plastic bags that paid for 25 cents. Although the sachet is said to be sold for money in order to prevent unconscious consumption, the Plastic Bag Law is a new revenue item.
Prof. Dr. Osman Altug made a statement to the Milli Gazete and said, "If the environmental pollution is caused by these bags, it has an application form. This application also exists in Germany but ours is different. How much does the bag cost? If you think about something like that, remove the bag, make it. Is it new to the bag? We've been cheated at the bag? Weird and wrong application. The consumer is not protected. If they believe that they will correct the economic crisis with the pouch, they are wrong. The budget deficits will not be closed with the bag," he said.
The United Nations said in a report published in the countries traversed the toll bag applications up to 60 percent of consumption has fallen stated that, while Turkey is expected to fall 50 percent in the bag consumption. However, to reduce the consumption of the bag, the bill is cut to the citizen. 25 cents seems to be a small figure, although depending on the shopping varies 6 pouches taken into consideration, this figure goes up to £ 1.50.
So how will businesses with recycling be affected? With the new regulation, the contribution paid by the companies for the recycling of waste will increase. This share for plastics will be 9 times. It will increase 12.5 times in aluminum boxes, 6 times in metal boxes, 10 times in composite boxes such as milk box and 8.6 times in paper. While there are no such increases before, firms will have difficulty in making payments and the sector will have more difficulties. 15 cents of money taken over the 25 cents of the treasure where the money is used to be wondered ... Minister of Environment and Urbanization, Murat Kurum, 15 cents of the 25 cents "Recycling Participation Share" as the new environmentalist projects said. Time will show whether the income from the plastic bag will be spent on improving the recovery system.
Aydin Agaoglu, citizens have the right to return plastic bags and the deposit logic would be more useful, Consumer Law according to any product purchased in the store has the right to return the consumer. This connects the dealer. In addition, if the bag is drilled and the products suffered damage, it can still be requested from the consumer store. Ağaoğlu evaluated the fact that the pouch law came out within the framework of the EU harmonization law and said: We cannot accept that Europeans do everything correctly. Moreover, our country's economic opportunities, human resources, and most importantly, per capita income in the middle, he said.
Environmental Law and the law that differs in some laws by planning the warning, from January 1, 2019, plastic shopping bags will be sold at a minimum of 25 cents. Plastic bags will give free selling points, closed sales for each square meter of an administrative fine of 10 pounds to be cut.