Kupang, Aktual.com – Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI) East Nusa Tenggara assess policies imposition of paid plastic bags for consumers who shop in supermarkets, minimarkets and hypermart not pro-people, but more pro-market.

“Not pro-people because it should have policies that protect and no longer burden the people by having to pay more as an additional result of the plastic bag provided by the company’s retail services,” says managers Kompanye Coastal and Marine WALHI NTT Justin B Dharma in Kupang on Thursday (25/2).

The public, he said, may still remember well, the statement by President Joko Widodo set up the cabinet at the beginning of the United Indonesia Cabinet stressed filled by people who are pro-people, not pro-market.

Ministry of Environment and Forestry since February 21, 2016 launched the implementation of paid plastic bags in shopping areas by applying the minimum rate of 200 for every plastic bag.

The Ministry claimed that the plastic bag policy is paid in accordance with Law No. 18 Year 2008 on waste management.
The policy aims to reduce environmental pollution from waste plastic.

Because this time the amount of landfill waste plastic bags continue to increase significantly in the last 10 years. About 9.8 billion pieces of plastic bags used by the people of Indonesia each year.

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