“We only need plastic bags at Vogelsberg Louis-Vuittons,” said Carmela, a saleswoman who didn’t want to reveal her surname. She wrapped a pound of pork chops in paper for customers. This refers to customers who are worried about paper bags, their expensive bags may come into contact with meat.
For three years, Carmela sold steaks, sausages and ribs to her customers in the car of the country butcher Krueger at the weekly market in Sachsenhausen in the south of Frankfurt twice a week. At her booth, she did not notice the ban on single-use plastic bags in the Frankfurt weekly market, which took effect from October 1st and was decided by HFM Managementgesellschaft für Hafen und Markt.
Plastic shirt bags allowed
A press release from HFM stated that its purpose is to “further reduce the consumption of environmentally harmful single-use plastics.”In fact, consumption comes from Plastic bag Have been back for many years. Compared with 2015, it has dropped by 70%. Many people don’t know why the ban is especially imposed on the weekly market. In any case, plastic bags are hardly used there. HFM announced that the consumption of plastics on the market should be reduced to the “lowest possible level.”
“We use up to five plastic bags a day,” Carmela said. If customers want such bags, they use so-called shirt bags, plastic bags with a wall thickness of less than 15 microns, which is still allowed. Only thick disposable bags are forbidden. Other booth operators are doing the same thing. The same is true for the man at the potato stand, “Kartoffel Schmid”, who calls himself Eberhard. “A total ban on plastic bags would make more sense,” Eberhard said. He didn’t understand why the ban was only related to the weekly market. Even though various types of round dumplings have been sold at Carola Heg’s “Carolas Knödel Welt” stall for six years, the new regulations have also been met with incomprehension. “A lot of people don’t want these bags at all. Most of them also have their own bags or boxes,” she said.
Some traders in the market are not even aware of the new ban. Especially in greengrocers, many people put carrots and cucumbers directly into their carry-on bags or baskets. There is no bag around. A shopper said that she had been shopping at the weekly market in Frankfurt for 30 years, and she pointed to her bag. “This is my shopping bag, I always carry it with me.” She also didn’t notice the ban.
You can hardly see plastic bags on the weekly market in Sachsenhausen. Almost every customer puts Carola’s dumplings, Eberhard’s potatoes and Carmela’s sausages in their own bags. The goods themselves are either unpackaged or wrapped in paper. The impression given by customers and distributors in this market is that this ban is unnecessary.
