Considerations, benefits and unintended consequences of banning plastic shopping bags for environmental sustainability: A systematic literature review

Policies Referenced

• Ban on Plastic Bags Order, 2015 (2015), Gambia
• Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Bag Ban, 2017 (2017), Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Buenos Aires province, Argentina, bag ban, 2012 (2012), Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Loi n° 2013-029 portant code de la Marine marchande. (2013), Mauritania
• Plastics Bags Control and Management Regulations (2018), Kenya
• Regulation on Plastic Carrier Bags and Plastic Flat Bags (No. R. 625 of 2003) (2003), South Africa
• South Australia Plastic Shopping Bags (Waste Avoidance) Regulations 2008 (2008), South Australia, Australia
• Statutory Instrument No 65 on Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations (2018), Zambia
• Tasmania Plastic Shopping Bags Ban Act 2013 (2013), Tasmania, Australia
• The Finance Act - To Prohibit the Importation, Local Manufacture, Sale or Use of Polyethene Bags (2009), Uganda
• The Legal notice for banning of plastic bags (notice No. 99/2004) (2004), Eritrea
• Thompson By-Law Number 1839-2010 (2010), Thompson, Manitoba, Canada