A progressive policy. Enforcement is a traditional problem. I'm guessing a new unit will be formed for enforcement? That should reduce the unemployment numbers.

So stores will be allowed to charge up to $1 for their stockpiled plastic bags that cost them less than a penny, AND keep the proceeds?!?!?!!?!?
What lawmaker came up with that brilliant idea?

anyone know when ANY siting government will clean up Nassau of derelict cars appliances etc, oh and glass bottles and containers ?

@K4C, actually the current government has done a fairly good job at cleaning up the island, the problem is, as has always been, as fast as the garbage is removed our slovenly, ignorant and disgusting people replace it with new, even in their own communities and neighborhoods.
When the litter laws are enforced with fines with teeth and the perps are named, shamed and put on the streets to clean up what they threw there, then we might see a change in attitude but I won't be holding my breath.

as Stevie Wonder said, I will believe it when I see it

This is complete bogus.

When the billions of plastic water bottles are eliminated we can worry about straws and grocery bags and balloons (if all things, yes balloons).

These idiots who passed this law need to get a grip

We need grocery bags, wether plastic paper or whatever. We don’t need bottled water, or soda.

Ban the real problems morons. Oh I guess I’ll forgot. You can’t ban water bottles or soda because that would hurt corporate profits.

We all use more plastic per day via bottles that bags straws etc combine Ned.

Total lunacy. Only possible reason is to take more money from the poor and funnel it to the rich.

Further, these are not "SINGLE USE PLASTICS". I reuse all plastic bags as garbage bags.
Now I have to buy garbage bags and the prices are ridiculous.

Yes water bottle much bigger problems.

I used to buy the drink named snapple
And reuse the glass bottles for storage in my kitchen.

They now have a label on the bottle "NOW PLASTIC BOTTLES". I stopped buying it.

Also the way to recycle plastic is to ship to southeast Asia burn it. Polluting other people's countries.

another FNM joke are they going to hire the "dream police" (sorry cheap trick)to arrest everyone for these crimes???

Unfortunately, the "dream police" are some of the biggest offenders when it comes to littering and breaking the law in general, but then look at the recruitment pool available, the same D average illiterates that are the root of this and many other social problems that plague us!
This is neither an FNM nor PLP joke rather a "joke" perpetrated on Bahamians by ourselves, we have met the enemy and it is us!

Yeah, no. **Ever before noticed how overly exited Minister Romauld has become over his latest paper bag policy?**
Here comes the **400** newly recruited members the Royal Constabulary's plastics enforcement comrades. **You can't make this up, you, just can't that if a shopper walks out of any business establishment after July 1, 2020 with goods obtained from that establishment packed into a self brought into plastic bag, the establishment's operator is subject to a $10,000 fine, or imprisonment.** Yes, the government's official plastic bag spokesman has said that most certainly that **there will be undercover members the constabulary conducting intelligence inside, outside and about colony's thousands business establishments.** You has know your government means serious arrest and imprisonment business to all such offenders when they done has appointed designated individuals be official plastic bag enforcement spokeswoman's and spokesman's.

The FNM cabinet will do and has done what ever they can to hurt poor people
plastic garbage bags plastic bags to weigh produce will be available/

The poor out of the little they have will have to buy bags. doc them making some body
richer.

Those bags in the ocean are not coming from poor folks over the hill they do not
go by the ocean all that often

The man of two birds and one goat. seems not to be concerned about oil spills

Some folks should be committed to the crazy hill before it is to late.

Yeah, no. **You remember this staging?**
What strong, **minus the bow tie, alive lookalike** to the deceased colony's native born comrade handbag designer, who the undertaker propped-up sitting in a chair for his public viewing. No way stretch this real chair staging of a body happening into make up, **you just, can't.**

If one looks at the total of the types pf plastic banned it is but a fraction.
If one looks at the exempted plastics list, it is extensive.
I agree you have to start somewhere, but more than anything else the "fee" charged for Bio degradable or compostable bags is more an attempt at behavior modification.
The tracking of "sales" of the bags is to assess the success and reduced sales of those bags.
The most interesting thing is the exceptions for the use of various bag catagories "soley for the use of...."
This implies the Bag police will be busy.

Yeah, no. No sensible argument can, or should, be attempted by any comrade that the continued use plastics should and must not be erased from we colony of out islands - nevertheless, there are other serious matters which are not being addressed by the government - likes how is it that **35 to 75** percent of **all the lands in Nassau, FREEport, and on Cat Island, are foreign owned or controlled?** Why is it that it has come about that **we colonialists are less Landholders today** than at any time in we long history?

Don’t forget this is just the first stage of the ban on plastics. More items, mostly single use plastics will be banned. The act says if you are caught with these items in your possession in The Bahamasyou can be fined or jailed or both. So persons traveling abroad. If you shop in say Walmart and mistakenly pack your purchases in the shopping bags. Or if you purchase a snack in an airport when returning home and they give you styrofoam or plastic forks or bags, these items will be confiscated at the airport or points of entry and you can be fined. Nd when the ban is extended to include plastic water bottles and soft drinks containers, many places don’t allow bottles.