Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) Director Raymond Tam Vai Man said last week that his bureau has bought about a dozen recycling machines for the colletction of used plastic bottles which will come into use at different locations in the city before the end of the year, adding that his bureau has “provisionally” decided to export the collected bottles to Thailand for recycling.
Tam made the remarks while speaking to reporters in Iao Hon Market Park on Saturday on the sidelines of a promotional campaign for the upcoming implementation of the government’s plastic carrier bag charge scheme.
In conjunction with the government’s Consumer Council (CC) and the Alliance for Common People Building Up Macau (API) – one of the city’s biggest community associations, the bureau organised the promotional campaign on Saturday morning, when DSPA officials, representatives of the council and the association as well as volunteers distributed promotional leaflets to residents and promotional posters to shops in Iao Hon district. Macau’s retail outlets will be required to charge customers one pataca for each bag when the plastic carrier bag levy scheme gets off the ground on November 18.
Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) Director Raymond Tam Vai Man (right) put a promotional poster about the city’s plastic carrier bag charge scheme in retail businesses outside a shop in Iao Hon district on Saturday when the bureau organised a promotional campaign for the levy scheme which will be implemented on November 18. Photo: DSPA
