date:Jan 09, 2019
Ahmet Varir, manager of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization's Zero Waste Department said: We saw a drop by 70% in certain areas. Consumers seem to have responded positively to the first day of regulation.
Varir stated that there are both positive and negative responses to the new regulation which introduced paid plastic bags in supermarkets.
Having already received the first results of the new regulation, Varir said: Supermarkets that used to provide 100 units of plastic bags to the c