Heavy-Weight Plastic Bags – Added Expenditure to Consumers

[Cameroon Tribune]Since the ban of production, distribution, and use of light-weight (less than 60 microns) plastic bags by government on April 24, 2014, some traders in the economic capital are vehemently refusing to buy the prescribed heavy-weight plastic bags (more than 61 microns) plastic bags under the pretext that it is scarce and expensive. The new plastic bags, mostly produced by OK Plast-Cam in Douala are more expensive than the banned type since the quantity and quality of material used is much.