TC gives green light to bill banning delivery of plastic bags – National

The Constitutional Court gave the green light to the draft law to ban the delivery of plastic bags throughout the national territory and can be promulgated.

This, after the Association of Industrial Plastics (Asipla) which had requested revision by a " be present " where comments were given to the text.

] Through a statement, the TC noted that " it was agreed to declare as their own constitutional organic law and adjusted to the Constitution all the rules transmitted to control, without being subjected to the control of other additional precepts pro . "

They add that" a document presented in the exercise of the right of petition was notified and finally it was agreed by the Plenary that ". it was not relevant to take it into account in the reasoning of the judgment. "

the detail and the basis of the agreements and the votes in particular will be announced in the sentence which will be published in the next days

WHAT IS THE NORMATIVE?

The ban on the use of plastic bags will have a transition period, which will be a year after the publication of the provision in the Official Journal for large companies.

In the case of micro, small and medium enterprises, will have up to two years to adapt to the measurement

Biodegradable bags must also be eliminated as stated by Minister Cubillos, contrary to European countries, Chil e there is no official certification of biodegradability; There are companies that claim that their bags are biodegradable today. Moreover, even when they have been externally certified as degradable, this certification is made under certain conditions that do not exist in Chile. "

The exception will be the black bags that are used to get rid of garbage because" a bag of these may last four or five days and is used to be sent to the landfill This is not a bag that circulates in any other way . "

In addition, Minister Cubillos explained that there are special cases and that there are still authorized containers, such as" plastics that come into direct contact with food for sanitary reasons , which continue to be donated to the supermarket, purchases of meat, sausage, bread or vegetables continue to be made in plastic bags.