BANGKOK: A plastic bag ban that came into effect last week to force shoppers to go green is threatening to sink its makers in the red, even as factories slash prices to woo retailers.
Eco-logical: Jon the chimpanzee choosing a reusable shopping bag instead of a plastic one during a show at the Songkhla Zoo. — The Nation/ANNA plastic bag ban that came into effect last week to force shoppers to go green is threatening to sink its makers in the red, even as factories slash prices to woo retailers.
According to Greenpeace, Thailand is the world’s sixth biggest contributor of ocean waste and produces more than 2.2 million tonnes of plastic waste a year. But even as environmentalists are hailing the initiative, Thailand’s 1,000 plastic bag factories suffer from the ban with some expecting to close in months if the government does not provide some form of assistance.
They have stopped ordering plastic bags from his factory since October last year, resulting in the loss of most of his 14 million baht monthly revenue.
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