Supermarkets are greater benefit from the sale of the bag, pointing consumers paulistanos

For 79% of São Paulo, the City Council should bring down the Mayor''s veto Haddad and annul the decision to maintain the collection of packaging, Datafolha survey points. About 82% of the gratuity of the bags should be a consumer rights acquired by law.
The Chamber of Councilmen of São Paulo recently approved a law which required supermarkets, hypermarkets, wholesalers and retail establishments congeners to provide free to customers plastic bags to carry your purchases. However, in the last day July 21, Mayor Fernando Haddad vetoed the law, allowing these establishments to continue charging for these packagings in São Paulo. According to the Mayor, the adoption of the new law would be a step backwards. The City Council can still bring down the Mayor''s veto Haddad and annul the decision, making the law which obliges the free delivery of the plastic bags in place.
Datafolha asked the paulistanos who would be best served with the recovery of plastic bags. For 54% of those surveyed, supermarkets are the most benefited. Then appears the city 25% and the environment appears only for 19% of the opinions of respondents. These are the three options of answers presented to respondents.
For 61% of consumers paulistanos, who should pay for the plastic bags would be supermarkets, followed by 29 percent who think the city should pay the Bill.
Confusion in the correct use of the bag even though the city say that the bags would be an instrument of selective collection, many people do not use the packaging for that order and others are confused about the correct use of the plastic bags of green and gray colors. "We believe that the sale of plastic bags by supermarkets is one of the main reasons for the failure of the selective waste collection in the city. The population does not accept pay for bags and leaves, so using them as the City Hall and we wish: instrument to encourage recycling and solid waste disposal, "said Miguel Bahiense, President of Plastivida.
Of those surveyed by Datafolha, 68% replied that the population is not using the Green and grey bags to separate trash for recycling. Only 27% said that the population uses plastic bags to dispose of household waste for recycling.