Just as Nerja town hall announces that it will be distributing 3,000 reusable cloth backs in the hope of getting people to stop using eco-damaging plastic, German supermarket chain Lidl has come out and said it will stop the sale of plastic bags in its Spanish stores before the end of the year. The measures pre-empts talk of Brussels banning …
The supermarket chain Mercadona in Andalucia will begin charging for bags at the checkouts as from February 1st 2011.
The Junta de Andalucia has decided to postpone both the new tax on plastic bags for single use and the new tax for water until May 1st 2011.
Supersol now charge €0.02 per per plastic bag at the checkouts. They have also been playing Feng Shui again, took me ages to find what I was looking for. They keep moving things around almost on a weekly basis.
The Central Government is aiming to reduce the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags in supermarkets by 50% by 2015, and while some regions have forged agreements to achieve this aim, Andalucia is the only region so far to opt to boost their coffers by introducing a tax.
The Junta de Andalucia has announced plans to create a new tax on plastic bags for single use, the rate being 10 cents.