Penang to implement new single-use plastics rule by next year

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GEORGE TOWN: With concerns over the Covid-19 pandemic easing, Penang is planning a single-use plastics framework to complement its state-wide “No Free Plastic Bag” campaign introduced way back in 2009.

Penang Green Council general manager Josephine Tan said if things went as planned, the state government hoped to launch it next year.

Since 2021, she said the campaign was further strengthened with no plastic bags given out at all from Mondays to Wednesdays. “This initiative has been adopted by all registered business operators, excluding wet markets and hawker centres,” she told The Star. However, she also said an online survey conducted by PGC to record changes on waste generation and consumer purchasing behaviour before and during the previous movement control orders showed that many people started using reusable bags long before the commencement of the MCO.

 

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