March 5th introduction of supermarket plastic bag specification

Lu Yan, head of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that the Commerce Bureau will issue regulations around March 5, targeting supermarkets and other places for providing environmentally-friendly plastic bags and plastic bags. The new regulations are expected to implement guidance prices for plastic bags, and businesses should also provide items to sort out. Wu Jianzhong, a deputy of Wuxi Municipal People's Congress and a person in charge of Wumart, said that Wumart has already begun ordering portable, environmentally-friendly shopping bags and will distribute them free of charge to the public, which is expected to start from the Spring Festival.