ASEZA’s Environment Directorate distributes 60,000 paper bags under plastic-free Aqaba campaign

Aqaba: The Environment Directorate at the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) implemented a campaign to distribute paper bags under the slogan "Towards a plastic-free Aqaba" in the stone bakeries of Aqaba city, in cooperation with the Red Sea Plastic Free Project. The Director of the Environment Directorate at ASEZA, Taghreed Maaytah, explained that the campaign, in its various stages, aimed to raise environmental awareness and educate the local community and visitors to Aqaba city about the harmful effects of plastic bags on human health and the environment, especially the marine environment. It also aimed to encourage the conscious community to reduce the use of plastic bags in stone bakeries and commercial complexes and to gradually adopt environmentally friendly paper bags as a sustainable alternative in the tourist city of Aqaba and raise awareness of their importance. Maaytah added that this is the last phase of the subsidized distribution campaign for stone bakeries, which was done by distr ibuting 60,000 paper bags out of a total of 100,000 and 5,000 cloth bags. She pointed out that after that, the legislation and regulations governing the ban on the use of plastic bags in stone bakeries and commercial complexes in Aqaba City will be activated. Source: Jordan News Agency