Commercial packaging and alternative products

legal considerations around the problem single-use and reusable bags in the light of Law 22/2011, of July 28th, of waste and contaminated soil

Abstract

In this work it is introduced the thesis that only bags provided by shops and commercial areas for carrying out the main role of a container can be legally considered as a container. We can come to the conclusion that only single use commercial bags, whatever they are made of, can be handed in by shops and commercial areas in order to carry out a container’s own role, since only these are exclusively conceived and designed for being filled at the shop and transport the acquired goods by the consumer to the consuming point, after which they are likely to be discarded since they have no more value. Therefore, the specific legal regime provided for container disposal can only be applied to these single use commercial bags