An agreement between the Thai government and major retailers across Thailand to stop providing free single-use shopping plastic bags on Jan 1 but customers can now pay a small fee for reusables beginning from Friday (Jan 10). ST/ANN
BANGKOK: A plastic bag ban that came into effect last week to force shoppers to go green is threatening to sink makers of the environmentally unfriendly disposable in the red, even as plastic bag factories slash prices to woo retailers.
An agreement between the Thai government and major retailers across Thailand to stop providing free single-use shopping plastic bags came into effect on Jan 1 following publicity surrounding the deaths of marine life that had consumed plastic bags and a subsequent intense campaign against the products.
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