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Plastic bag ban stalls in Chihuahua, a casualty of the pandemic
Title (Dublin Core)
Plastic bag ban stalls in Chihuahua, a casualty of the pandemic
Description (Dublin Core)
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.
Date (Dublin Core)
May 6, 2022
Creator (Dublin Core)
El Paso Matters
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Text story
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Government State
English
Environment & Landscape
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
trash
capacity
fine
medical waste
plastic ban
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Mexico
Chihuahua
plastic bag
single-use plastic
lockdown
environment
landfill
waste
state government
economy
ASU
HST580
Collection (Dublin Core)
Environment
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
05/06/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
05/18/2022
07/09/2022
08/02/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
05/06/2022
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