This Directive supplements Directive 94/62/EC by inserting new provisions that require Member States to take measures to achieve a sustained reduction in the consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags on their territory. Those measures may include the use of national reduction targets, maintaining or introducing economic instruments as well as marketing restrictions.

To provide a regulatory framework for the design, installation and operations that recycle, compost or convert solid wastes in Rwanda. To encourage the diversion and recovery of recyclable materials

The Bill enacts the Microbead Elimination and Monitoring Act, 2015. Microbeads are non-biodegradable solid plastic particles measuring less than one millimetre in diameter that are used in cosmetics, soaps or similar products as cleansing or exfoliating agents. The Bill prohibits the manufacture of microbeads and the addition of microbeads to cosmetics, soaps or similar products.

This Act concerns wastes management and prevention of the waste generation. The Act consists of eight Sections and lays down: (1) measures to prevent the generation of waste; (2) rights and obligations of legal persons and natural persons in the prevention of the generation of waste and the management of waste; (3) treatment of municipal waste; (4) transboundary movement of waste; (5) the...

These Regulations, made by the Chairman of the National Environment Management Council under section 63(1) of the National Environment Management Act, prohibits the manufacture, importation, use or sale of plastic bags in The Gambia. The Chairman shall issue a Notice in the gazette to establish a list of plastic packaging materials that may be used in exceptional cases in The Gambia. An importer...