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Suzanne Stanley, Chief Executive Officer of JET
The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) is appealing to the Government to not extend the grace period for the use of banned plastic bags and to enforce the law come February 1.
Some businesses were granted additional time to use up their existing stock.
Peter Knight, Chief Executive Officer of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), has said the authorities will start cracking down on the use of banned plastic bags as soon as the grace period ends.
Suzanne Stanley, Chief Executive Officer of JET, has said the full force of the law should be applied at that point.
"We would not to see that this grace period is indefinitely extended because once you start doing extension, extension, extension, then less and less people are going to take the action seriously," she asserted.
Ms Stanley noted that, while enforcement is taking place, the public education campaign should continue.
"I think that there needs to be a lot more public education, a lot more information coming from the government about what the penalty is in terms of the ban. So, if it is that you are found distributing plastic bags or plastic straws or imported styrofoam, then you as a retailer, you as a wholesaler, you as a vendor - what is the penalty for doing that, under what circumstances can you be prosecuted?" she elaborated.
NEPA has said the fourth and final leg of the all-island plastic ban public education tour is scheduled for February 6 to 9.
In the meantime, Ms Stanley continued to chide the government for the implementation of the ban on certain plastics, arguing that it has been a confusing period because information has not been forthcoming.
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