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Responsibility for excessive plastic packaging should fall on retailers and producers
Charges to be levied on consumers can reduce last-mile use of plastic bags, but more upstream interventions are needed to realise Singapore’s zero-waste goals
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Our road to a zero-waste nation requires us to confront the fact that many aspects of the way we live our lives now are not sustainable, says the writer.
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Woo Qiyun
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People must soon pay a compulsory per bag charge at most places, with supermarket chains set to charge at least five cents
The move follows new guidelines to be rolled out by the National Environment Agency (NEA) announced in early 2022 and builds on earlier efforts to charge consumers for all disposable carrier bags since.
