Plastic Shopping Bags: Environmental Impacts and Policy Options

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Title

Plastic Shopping Bags: Environmental Impacts and Policy Options

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Victoria University of Wellington

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VUW ResearchArchive

Description

Due to public concern over the environmental impacts of plastic shopping bags many countries, states, towns and councils are implementing measures to address their use.While a number of individual retailers in New Zealand have taken steps to reduce plastic bag consumption, there has been limited national or regional government action to address plastic shopping bag use. While other countries have favoured economic instruments, such as Ireland's "PlasTax", under a cost benefit analysis researc...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2007

Creator

Tough, Rhian

URL

http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/571

Related subjects

Degradable plastic / Environmental policy / Plastic bags

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