| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2008 
Mexico Legislating on Plastic Bags
 Prensa Latina
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Mexico City - The Legislative Assembly of the Federal District of Mexico studies a reformation proposal to the law on solid residuals of the Mexican capital to avoid the damages that plastic bags cause to the environment.
The idea is to annul the use of those containers in the mercantile establishments of this city and the substitution by others of biodegradable material.
Some foods would be exonerated as a question of asepsis.
In that sense, the commissions of Science, Technology and Environment and Ecological Protection of the Assembly, approved the proposal unanimously.
Leonardo Alvarez, a deputy of the Environmentalist Green Party of Mexico, a promoter of the initiative, emphasized that the excessive use of the bags of plastic affects the environment and the human health, because they are generating fires, floods and contaminate the soil and the air.
Derived products of that material take up to more than 1,000 years in being destroyed, and the production is very expensive, as well as its reuse.
To recycle a ton of plastic costs around 4,000 dollars, Alvarez specified, also president of the Commission of Preservation of Environment and Ecological Protection in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District.
He remembered that those bags were introduced in Mexico in the 1970's, but their use has increased hundred percent in the last eight years.
In that sense he urged to promote the use of other bags of biodegradable material as their decomposition is easier and also because they require less fossil fuel in their production. |
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