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The Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection has proposed to ban single-use plastic products across the country, Minister Erik Grigoryan told a briefing on Tuesday, following the Cabinet meeting.

According to the minister, the process will launch in a community to further spread to the whole region, and after a while Armenia will join the countries that have banned single-use plastics.

Grigoryan states many countries across the world are actively placing bans on plastics. “I personally think that it will be banned worldwide in the next 5-10 years,” he says.

“At the moment, we cannot totally ban the use of plastics, but we are starting such a process,” the minister noted.

He says single-use plastics will be replaced with reusable cloth bags, that will be distributed to all the residents of the community where the process will launch, with measures planned to recycle plastic bottles.