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Great Step For Environment From Spain

Great Step For Environment From Spain
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01.09.2009 Republic

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Plastic bag consumption launched campaigns to reduce the use of large markets in Spain, which is third place in Europe

[[T]] Carrefour and Eroski supermarkets in Spain, while stopping the use of plastic bags in stores from today, distributing bags from paper, which is reusable to customers. [

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El Corte Ingles and other markets such as Alcampo also announced they launched various campaigns to reduce the use of plastic bags. When an annual average of 238 plastic bags of a person in Spain is indicated that these bags are not spontaneous in nature in a long time, but 400 years.

Plastic bags create 100 thousand tons of garbage in Spain, and the authorities marked carbondiokside, which is released in the air, aiming to reduce plastic bag usage up to 50 percent.

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