The sale or free distribution of single-use plastic shopping bags with a thickness between 15 and 50 microns – millionths of a metre – are to be banned in the north from January 1, its environmental protection department announced on Monday.
According to the department, the move has been made “to combat plastic pollution, which threatens the environment and public health”, while ‘deputy prime minister’ Fikri Ataoglu, whose office oversees
