Chile enacts historic ban on plastic bags
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Channel: AFP News Agency · 2018 · News & Politics
Chile makes history as it becomes the first country in Latin America to ban the commercial use of plastic bags. "We can't continue polluting as if we owned the Earth," says President Sebastian Pinera at a public ceremony in the centre of Santiago, after which he handed out cloth bags to passers-by.
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