Another US city banned plastic bags

City Council of Los Angeles, California (USA) has issued a decree banning the use of plastic packaging in supermarkets, 75,000 stores in the city must switch from plastic packaging to paper packaging, carton and other materials easily decompose, Reuters information said.

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"It's great for the environment, the ocean and the beaches. I think this is the victory for all of us ," said Los Angeles City Councilor Ed Reyes.

According to ecologists, in the city, the population of about 3.7 million people consumes about 2.3 billion disposable packages annually.

Supermarkets and more than 75,000 stores will be banned from using plastic bags.

"From any point of view, plastics are extremely 'obnoxious'. Even if they exist in the nature for hundreds of years they do not decompose, burn without fire and want to treat them is very expensive. plastic packaging has gone to the ocean, it is not easy to salvage them , 'Kirill Kivva of the Federal Fisheries Research Institute told reporter RIANovosti.

According to him, handling plastics that have been discharged into nature is very laborious, costly and almost impossible to do. The only way is to prohibit the use of polietilen and polipropene - the two main types of plastics that are produced today - only.

In the world today people still use 500 billion to 1,000 billion disposable plastic packaging every year and up to 380 billion in America alone. For the first time, the ban on plastic packaging in stores has been implemented in the city of San Francissco since 2005, after which this law applies in many other US cities. In California - the leading state in this - has banned the use of plastic packaging in 45 cities. Los Angeles is California's largest city and the second largest in the United States.