The Kyiv City Council adopted appeals to the Verkhovna Rada, which recommends banning the use and sale of plastic bags on the territory of Ukraine. For this decision, 85 MPs voted, Zn reports.. ua. "In Ukraine there are more than 500 plastic bags per person per year. The decay period of one is more than 100 years. This leads to environmental pollution, causes clogging of streets, green and coastal zones, reservoirs. Given this, about 40 countries have already adopted regulations that either prohibit or restrict the use of plastic bags, "- said the deputy of the Kyiv City Council Konstantin Yalova. According to the press service of the Kyiv city council, an initiative on banning the use and sale of disposable plastic bags was registered on the website of the electronic petitions of the Kyiv City Council. She was supported at a meeting of the permanent commission of the Kyiv city council on environmental policy issues.

But the current legislation does not provide for the right of local self-government bodies to establish a ban on the circulation of goods on the territory of the respective administrative-territorial unit. Thus, the issue of prohibiting the use and sale of plastic bags should be decided at the state level. "It is for this purpose that the Kyiv City Council appeals to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a request to resolve the issue of prohibiting the use of plastic bags at the legislative level," the Kyiv City Council. Recall, in 2012 in Ukraine have already tried to prohibit the use of plastic bags.

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