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Three billion and two hundred espring manual million. So, according to the Ministry of Environment espring manual and Water, are plastic bags that you can buy in Bulgaria for one year. If you tie them to each other (and we assume that the bag is 30 cm long on average), it can pitch our nylon rope to the moon, then back to Earth and back halfway. Hardly know, but plastic bags are called by producers and traders bag type "singlet" and, what is even more stupid than their name, they'll live a lot longer than us. Depending on the type and conditions they decompose to between one hundred and four years, espring manual which means that at the moment only in Bulgaria espring manual there are tens of billions of bags. At the same time the waste management in Bulgaria is quite primitive level - they are processed and stored only in open dumps. In the case of the bag is completely pointless, as any breeze takes them there and refer them to the trees, meadows, rivers - virtually anywhere. Thing about the problem with plastic bags is that it is relatively easy solutions that would not have seemed at all expensive. In most countries where war has already been won nylon, just was not enough to discourage consumption and bags are taxed. Bulgaria is still far from solution, but individual cities as Kyustendil, Sofia and Plovdiv are beginning to fight the epidemic of rolling bags everywhere. Tons bags According to NSI in 2006 the country produced over 26,000 tons sacks and bags including cones, of polymers of ethylene. The trend is upward - a year ago they were two thousand tons less. Statistics of the Ministry of Environment and Waters for their use shows that every Bulgarian uses a 1.25 bags per day, which means that every year in use includes approximately 3.2 billion units of them. That's a lot. In Australia (population 21 million) number is 6670000000. The large number of bags in Bulgaria is only a small part of the problem. The point is that they are hardly recycled - experts talk about less than one percent utilization. The bags are lightweight and made of wind, some of them never made it to the landfill. As seen, each plastic bag you use throughout your life, in some form will survive. Furthermore, polyethylene bags often become food for animals that is often fatal. "Mass used plastic bags, disposable pose a serious environmental problem, espring manual mainly due to its long degradation espring manual - of the order of one hundred to four hundred years," explains Georgi Stefanov, Information and Education Centre of Ecology (CEIE). The expert believes that "the Bulgarian rulers should reflect on the seriousness of the problem in the shortest possible time to take restrictive measures on the use of plastic bags." 1 2 3 Next " first battle "
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Hello, I'm going to be interesting to do a study / article about what happens after your trash with blue / green / yellow container. Several organizations collect amounts as eco-tax on packaging, but to me I'd be interested to know what happens to these packages - how to process what is made from recycled plastic, etc.
yes, it would be interesting if it's worth the effort to cross the 1 avenue espring manual to separate waste in appropriate containers with the colors (because there are the closest espring manual ones) - for me this is 10 minutes, not much, but still .. . then what happens?
Cheap and comfy polyethylene espring manual bags. This is the main reason to use widely and across all sectors. The company where I work, soon began packaging product that generally does not require plastic, precisely in such bags. And because a product advantage that will keep a good price and will be effective on the market. I consider myself an ecologist, but nothing I can do.
It is high time local residents to understand that dirt overflowing trash bins, vetreeshtiyat is nylon carry-all mnoooogo espring manual money mafia engaged in "to clear