People's net Sydney, August 10, according to The Australian, the New Zealand government announced on the 10th that it will ban disposable plastic shopping bags next year.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and deputy Environment Minister Eugenie Saatchi said retailers will have at least six months from now to phase out the provision of lightweight plastic bags. The proposal calls for fines for non-compliance to be raised to 100,000 New Zealand dollars, or about 450,000 yuan. Details of the plan will be discussed in September.

reported that New Zealand's per capita municipal waste generation rate is the highest in the developed world. According to statistics, China uses about 750 million plastic shopping bags every year, or 154 per capita. Jacinda Ardern said the excessive use of plastic bags will eventually pollute New Zealand's precious coastal and Marine environment and cause serious harm to all kinds of Marine life.

The country's two major supermarket chains and several major retailers have announced that they will stop using single-use plastic bags by the end of 2018. In recent years, more than 100,000 people have signed an application to ban plastic bags in New Zealand.

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