REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT
11.01.2022
Combating plastic pollution in Armenia

- Will only economic entities be responsible?
- What is the degree of polyethylene pollution in Armenia and what will be the environmental benefits in this legislative regulation?
- According to the RA Code of Administrative Offences, the sale of goods prohibited by the RA Law "On Trade and Services" entails the imposition of a fine on an official in the amount of twenty to thirty times the established minimum wage.
- There is a separate fine for each offense. Local self-government bodies considered as a subject of control. 
- Can citizens signal the problem last? In addition to the ban on the sale of single-use plastic bags, what will be the successive stages of combating plastic pollution-the removal of plastic tableware from circulation and the creation of a depository system. How will this be implemented?
Interview with the Head of Department of Strategic Policy of the Ministry of Environment of RA Lusine Avetisyan. hy.armradio.am

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