Plastic bag ban to mark Thai Environment Day on Dec 4
BANGKOK, 3rd December 2018 (NNT) - Convenience stores, modern trade outlets, and shopping malls across Thailand will jointly refrain from providing single-use plastic bags to consumers to mark the Thai Environment Day tomorrow (Dec 4). The plastic bag-free day is the outcome of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and operators of convenience stores, modern trade outlets, and shopping malls. The Thai Environment Day has been designated as the launch date of the campaign to reduce single-use plastic bags. After tomorrow, all stores and malls will work out their own measures to reduce the use of the plastic bags, such as increasing number of days of plastic bag ban in each week. Earlier, several universities asked convenience stores in their campuses to stop providing single-use plastic bags to shoppers. The universities urged them to bring their own reusable bags to carry goods with incentives provided. Reusable bags are also available to be loaned to the shoppers.
