“We have to keep a shopping-bag onboard the car,” a housewife whispered in front of a drugstore located outskirt of Tokyo, where they posted a message to stop furnishing plastic shopping bags with free of charge by the end of March 2020. Others will follow, latest by the end of June, due to recent legal order by the government of Japan to compulsories retail shops to charge the single-use shopping bags as from the 1st of July 2020.
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