Minister of Environment and Physical Planning Nexhati Jakupi of Macedonia

Nexhati Jakupi met the participants in the Seventh Annual Meeting of civil societies in the area of environment on 13 December 2008, in Struga, Hotel Metropol.

Nexhati Jakupi had a meeting with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Mun and signed an Agreement with the Italian Ministry during his visit to Poznan, PolandMinister of Environment and Physical Planning Nexhati Jakupi, during the 14th Conference devoted to climate change, held in the City of Poznan, Poland, had a meeting with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Mun.

Silobreaker: Environment Minister Jakupi meets UN Chief Ban Ki.

Mr Jakupi said that although plastic bags are cheap and practical, their disadvantages far outweigh their advantages – their manufacture may take just a few seconds, but their decomposition takes four hundred years.

Environmental Minister Nexhati Jakupi said the government intends to reduce excessive use and improper disposal of the bags, as well as eliminate the public-health threat of carcinogenic emissions from burning plastic bags.

Jakupi said that though plastic bags are practical and cheap, their drawbacks outweigh their convenience.

Environment minister Nexhati Jakupi said the move was part of government plans to "reduce excessive use" and the "improper disposal" of the bags.