South Africa Bans Plastic Bags Posted by michael on Friday May 9, 2003 @07:26AM from the i-guess-you'll-be-choosing-paper-then dept. orrinrule writes "Yahoo! reports that South Africa's environment ministry bans plastic bags." Life's no fun any more.
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if anyone had RTFA, they are banning bags of less then 30 *MICRONS* thickness. (The current bags are 17) Of course the consumer gets the to pay the cost of that extra .01 gram of plastic