60% of interviewed Macao residents support plastic bag tax: survey

Chemical News: 60% of interviewed Macao residents support plastic bag tax: survey

https://www.chemnet.com Jun 02,2010
MACAO, May 31 (Xinhua) -- A local survey has found that some 60 percent of interviewed Macao residents support a tax on plastic shopping bags, and 60 percent would accept a charge for every bag, the Macao Post Daily reported on Monday.

Nearly a quarter of all respondents used three to five plastic bags a day on average while over 70 percent of them used less than two plastic bags per day, the daily said, quoting the results of the survey.

The survey, conducted by the Macao Environment Protection Volunteer Association, interviewed 1,104 local residents on May 16.

However, some 80 percent of the respondents said that they did not bring their own bags on shopping trips, while 76 percent said they did recycle the plastics bags for other purposes, according to the survey.

In the meantime, about 60 percent of the respondents said that they would view having to decrease their use of plastic bags as inconvenient, although 90 percent expressed their support to the government's initiatives to cut the use of plastic bags.

Taxing consumers for plastic bags was not the solution to "all problems", the daily quoted Cheong Sio Kei, director of Macao's Environment Protection Bureau (DSPA), as saying.

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