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纳米比亚禁公众在自然保护区使用塑料袋
为确保自然保护区环境卫生,纳米比亚禁止公众在区内使用塑料袋。
人民网报道,纳米比亚环境与旅游部22日正式宣布禁止在该国自然保护区内使用塑料袋。
纳环境与旅游部部长希菲塔在首都温得和克举行的活动中说,纳米比亚修订了1975年颁布的“自然保护条例”,增加一项新规定,即任何人不得携带塑料袋进入野生动物园或自然保护区。
希菲塔表示,违反此禁令者面临最高可达500纳米比亚元(约合50新元)的罚款,或6个月以下监禁,或者罚款和监禁并处。
Namibia’s Ministry of Environment and Tourism Thursday officially announced the ban of plastic bags in protected areas.
At an event in Windhoek on Thursday, the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta, said the recent development is historic in the waste management and pollution control programs of the country.
“The move signifies our serious commitment to control pollution in our country in line with the recently launched National Solid Waste Management Strategy, the National Development Plan and United Nations Sustainable Goal No. 3 on health and well being,” he said.
According to Shifeta Government Gazette No. 6285 of April 2017 amended the regulations of the Nature Conservation Ordinance of 1975 with the insertion of a new provision that no person shall enter a game park or nature reserve with a plastic bag.
Shifeta said a person who contravenes this ban is liable to a fine not exceeding 36 U.S. dollars (500 Namibia dollars) or to imprisonment not exceeding 6 months or to both such a fine and such imprisonment.
The minister called on all tourists not to carry plastic carrier bags into the protected areas and his ministry will step up our efforts to enforce this ban over the coming months.
Meanwhile, Chairman of Namibia Wildlife Resorts Leonard Iipumbu on occasion of the event said the organization is in the process to develop its waste management system which will become an integral part of their business.
Source: Xinhua / Zaobao
淡水危机 Fresh water crisis
水是世界上最普遍的物质之一,其中只有2%是淡水。淡水的87%又被封冻在冰层中,难以利用。这些资源在时空上分布不均,加上人类的不合理利用,使世界上许多地区面临着严重的水资源危机。
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浩瀚之旅:人与自然的和谐
从最初伊甸园中的诱惑,到砸中酣睡的牛顿。苹果,在整个人类发展的历史长河中,总是在关键处,俏皮地出现,然后将人类的发展变换了轨迹。
西方印象主义的开山始祖保罗塞尚曾说:“把这个世界的辽阔无垠以及强劲有力的浩瀚潮流,在一两英寸的空间里表现出来。我要用一只苹果震撼巴黎”。
在南洋的一隅,同样有一位钟情于苹果的华人艺术家,林金海先生,也在用苹果诠释着百态人生。
有些事看似偶然,却是命中注定,相同理念的人总会从不同的地方,聚在一起。与林先生的相遇,是在他的《浩瀚之旅》南洋艺术学院画展的最后一天。在愉快的交流中,当得知我们一直在身体力行地实践环保时,林先生热情地为我们分享了他最初艺术创作的理念、创作过程中的点点滴滴,和对未来的期许。
林先生语重心长地说,他画作背后的使命和精神就是提倡人类社会的和谐与和平;人与自然的和谐,呼吁人们重视当今的生存环境,意识到环境问题最终会引发的生存危机;在有生之年,能在文化艺术遗产中做出一点点贡献,便不虚此行来此世间。
林先生的殷切期望和几十年的潜心耕耘,深深打动了我们。也使得我们更坚信,自己今天担负的使命和责任,终将会为我们的子子孙孙造福。
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智利正式颁布“禁塑法” 成拉美首个全面“禁塑国”
智利3日正式颁布“禁塑法”,禁止全国所有超市、商铺向顾客提供塑料袋。智利将由此成为拉美首个全面禁止商家向购物者提供塑料袋的国家。
“禁塑法”规定,自本月3日起,全国大型超市、购物中心和百货商场将有6个月缓冲期,在此期间最多只能向每名购物者提供2个塑料袋。2019年2月3日起,所有大型超市、商场不得再向购物者提供免费或收费塑料袋,违者将被处以罚款。对每个违法提供的塑料袋,罚金最高可达370美元。
根据“禁塑法”,中小微型商家享有2年缓冲期,其间可向每名购物者提供2个塑料袋。自2020年8月3日起,智利将全面“禁塑”。
3日,智利总统皮涅拉在首都圣地亚哥市中心向行人派发环保布袋,庆祝“禁塑法”正式颁布。
今年5月30日,智利国会通过环境部提交审议的“禁塑法”。6月25日,智利塑料工业协会向智利宪法法院控告“禁塑法”违宪,后被宪法法院驳回。
2014年4月,智利国会通过法案,禁止在智利南部巴塔哥尼亚地区使用塑料袋。2017年10月,时任总统巴切莱特签署法案,要求在智利102个沿海城镇禁止商家向顾客提供塑料袋。
Chile made history on Friday (Aug 3) when it became the first country in Latin America to ban the commercial use of plastic bags.
“I want to share with you the joy that as of today we’re enacting the law,” said President Sebastian Pinera at a public ceremony in the centre of Santiago, after which he handed out cloth bags to passers-by.
Large businesses have six months to phase out the use of plastic bags, while smaller ones will be given two years to adapt to the new rules.
It means that any form of plastic bag other than those constituting primary packaging “necessary for hygiene or to prevent food wastage” are prohibited, the government gazette Diario Oficial said on Friday.
Those flouting the ban will be subject to a US$370 (S$505) fine, in a country where the minimum wage is just US$800.
“Without a doubt we’re taking a giant step towards a cleaner Chile,” added Pinera.
In the meantime, companies will be limited to handing out a maximum of two plastic bags per transaction.
Source: AFP / Xinhua