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EDITORIAL: Nema should always ensure clarity in bans
Shoppers leave a supermarket carrying unwoven shopping bags. Retail outlets, distributors and manufacturers of unwoven low-gauge packaging bags have 10 days to deplete stocks after the State identified them as a new environmental hazard. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Though welcome, the decision by the environmental watchdog, Nema, to ban non-woven polypropylene shopping bags, has caught users and companies on the wrong foot.
The National Environment Management Authority says the end of this month will mark the last day that people will be allowed to carry their shopping and personal effects using such material.
