San Francisco se convirtió en la primera ciudad de EE.UU. en prohibir las bolsas plásticas
La medida, que apunta a combatir la contaminación, states that the supermarket chains and pharmacies have six months to a year to deplete their stocks and replace them with the paper, which are biodegradable. Trends
San Francisco is the first U.S. city to prohibit by law the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags after the adoption of an ordinance broadly supported by the authorities. The city council has about 800,000 inhabitants, adopted at first instance a text that prohibits supermarkets and pharmacies to provide their customers plastic bags for their purchases. Once this ordinance is enacted by the mayor, Gavin Newsom, who supports the measure, supermarkets have up to six months to exhaust their stocks of plastic bags and replace them with the paper.
pharmacies, meanwhile, have up to a year to fold the legislation once it is confirmed by the highest authorities of the city, a source confirmed to the Mayor. "We hope other cities and states will follow suit," said Ross Mirkarimi, who supervises the city council and initiator of the project, said he was "surprised by the world's attention" that generated so far. Only in San Francisco is estimated that each year is distributed about 180 million plastic bags, according to environmental institute in the city of California, which is the State of the U.S. west coast with greater population density, about 37 million people, where cities like Los Angeles suffer from serious pollution problems. In this context
California became one of the first states in the country to take action against global warming, set apart from the environmental policy of Washington, and last August's Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reached a historic agreement with parliament local to curb the emission of gases that affect global warming.
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