NL: Petition 'Pricing all bags' presented to Parliament

In a petition, representatives of the plastics industry have asked for the expansion of the free plastic bag ban to all types of bags. The reason for the request is the fact that the current policy on plastic bags is very effective in reducing the use of plastic bags, but the decrease of environmental impact is annulled by the increase in environmental pressure because of the use of paper bags.
The plastics industry supports their request with the results from the independent report 'Pricing all bags', written by CE Delft. The petition has been received on 25 October 2016 and was put forward on 27 October during the plenary Continued General Debate (News item NRK).
Click here for the news item (in Dutch).
Click here for the petition (987 kB, in Dutch).
Click here for an English summary of the CE Delft report “Pricing all bags” (337 kB).
Click here for the full report (830 kB, in Dutch).
Click here for the minutes of the meeting held on 27 October (in Dutch).
Click here for the motions introduced on 27 October (in Dutch).
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