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plastic bags relected the cost the bags imposed on society and on the environment.
Set at 100 Lira (or $0.60) per plastic bag, it was paid by importers and producers,
and was about ive times the manufacturing cost of the bag, the tax made the plastic
bags more expensive than the alternatives. Between 1989 and 1992, the government
collected $150 million through the pollution tax [18].
5.4.2.4.9 Rwanda
As a policy measure in Rwanda, plastic bags less than 100 μm thick are banned (both
domestic and imported), and this is supported by well organised awareness campaign
[56]. As a result, disappearance of black plastic bags was reported.
5.4.2.4.10 Somaliland
Somaliland adopted an outright ban on the import, production and use of plastic
bags from the 1
st
March 2005 [57].
5.4.2.4.11 South Africa
The
Plastic Bags Regulations
of South Africa came into force from 2003 after enacting
the compulsory speciications. This notiication:
• Prohibitsthemanufacture,tradeandcommercialdistributionofplasticbagsmade
of plastic ilm for use within South Africa and having from a wall thickness of
less than 80 μm,
• Allowsmanufacture,tradeandcommercialdistributionofplasticbagsofthickness
30−80 μm for use in South Africa provided they do not have printing, painting
or marks of any kind unless demanded by law,
• Permitsmanufacture,tradeandcommercialdistributionofbreadbagsmadeof
plastic ilm of 25−80 μm thickness for use within the country provided they do
not have printing, painting or marks of any kind unless demanded by law,
• ExemptsShrinkleneandlimsybreadbagsmadeofplasticilm,
• Providesalegalinstrumentforpenaltiesonoffencessuchasviolationof
the provisions of this notiication, in the form of a ine of 100,000 Rand or
imprisonment for a period of <10 years, or both, and
