quimica - chemistry Victor Manuel Bautista Lopez presented an initiative at the LVII Legislature to amend several articles of the Code of Biodiversity

On behalf of the local congressional PRD caucus, Rep. Victor Manuel Bautista Lopez presented an initiative at the LVII Legislature to amend several articles of the Code of Biodiversity of the State of Mexico to the effect of decreasing the use of plastic bags in supermarkets.

One proposal is that concerning the reform of Article 4.47, which prohibits commercial establishments to deliver to their customers free plastic bags for containment, EMBASE and transport of the products they sell.

These businesses may only use plastic materials for aseptic or preservation of food or supplies.

"The use of plastic bags will be permitted only if they are created under technological procedures to give them the quality biodegradable. "The regulations and rules issued if the Secretariat (Environment), determine the technological standards that the bags must meet to have the property of biodegradable," says the initiative.

The proposal also includes amending Article 4.6 of the Code of Biodiversity mexiquense to develop, disseminate and implement a program to replace plastics in order to reduce their consumption, which includes educating state residents about the negative impact that this material produces in the environment.

When using the grandstand, Bautista Lopez explained that according to various estimates, 90 percent of the bags end their lives in landfills "are harmful to the environment for several reasons: the nature of non-biodegradable plastics which are manufactured, besides the fact that the manufacture of polyethylene is made from fossil fuels that emit polluting gases.