A Hong Kong grocery store owner was fined HK$5,000 on Thursday for failing to charge customers for plastic bags – the city’s first such case since the bag levy was introduced last year.
The levy requires all retailers to charge customers no less than 50 cents for a plastic bag unless the bags are to be used for holding food for hygiene reasons, packaging or non-retail purposes such as medical or dry cleaning services.
Kwun Tong Court heard that two officers from the Environmental...
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