Many countries are fighting plastic pollution by enforcing harsher regulations such as special labels and plastic taxes, but the island nation of Dominica is now leading the pack by announcing that it will ban plastic foam and common plastics by 2019. With less than five months left to go, the heroic stand involves the elimination of single-use items such as plastic straws, plates, forks and knives as well as plastic foam cups and containers. “Dominica prides itself as the ‘Nature Isle,'” Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said in his July 2018 budget address.
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Luciana Pricop, Inhabitat
Mon, 08/13/2018 - 2:00pm
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