Collected Item: “Plastic bag ban stalls in Chihuahua, a casualty of the pandemic”
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Plastic bag ban stalls in Chihuahua, a casualty of the pandemic
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This is a news story from El Paso Matters. This story is about Mexico's environmental issues that have risen due to COVID. In August 2019, Chihuahua became the latest state to ban single-use plastic bags. This changed with COVID, when household and medical waste rose to 80,000 tons per day.
Fines for violating Chihuahua’s plastic bag ban range from 2,000 Mexican pesos ($97) to 250,000 pesos ($12,200). But authorities have refrained from enforcing it, noting that single-use items were necessary to meet coronavirus safety requirements. The pandemic’s negative impact on the economy and available workforce also presented obstacles, says Gilberto Wenglas Lara, director of ecology at the Ministry of Urban Development and Ecology.
Fines for violating Chihuahua’s plastic bag ban range from 2,000 Mexican pesos ($97) to 250,000 pesos ($12,200). But authorities have refrained from enforcing it, noting that single-use items were necessary to meet coronavirus safety requirements. The pandemic’s negative impact on the economy and available workforce also presented obstacles, says Gilberto Wenglas Lara, director of ecology at the Ministry of Urban Development and Ecology.
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Mexico, Chihuahua, plastic bag, single-use plastic, lockdown, environment, landfill, waste, state government, economy, ASU, HST580
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https://elpasomatters.org/2022/05/06/plastic-bag-ban-stalls-in-chihuahua-a-casualty-of-the-pandemic/
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El Paso Matters
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2022-05-06