Cabinet to Approve Ban on Regifoam Boxes & Lunch Sheets

A Committee of Experts appointed in September last year to prepare ‘a national policy and an action plan on the use of polythene, plastic and bio-degradable plastic’ recommended banning regiform lunch boxes and PET (polyethylene terephthalate) small bottles of water and other drinks.

As a follow up action Central Environmental Authority (CEA) sources said, thatdraft regulations to ban regiform lunch boxes and extend the ban on lunch sheets less than 20 microns up to 40 microns will be presented to the Cabinet for  approval next week.

Once approved by the cabinet , it would be published in a Gazette and implemented within two months.

He noted if necessary a grace period would be announced for the manufactures, sellers and consumers to adapt to the new regulations and find alternatives.