Mexico.- The National Alliance of Small Merchants (Anpec) affirmed that the decree that prohibits the sale of products that do not come in returnable containers it will seriously affect all businesses and, above all, consumers.
The foregoing after last January of this year, a decree was published in the state of Quintana Roo by means of which a new state law is issued through which the sale of all those articles that come in disposable containers or packaging.
In a virtual press conference, the head of the National Alliance of Small Businesses, Cuauhtémoc Rivera, recalled that the 80% of the products sold They use plastic.
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For this reason, he argued that the lack of support from the authorities for the small companieswill cause an increase in the informal trade of the different plastic products that are currently offered.
“We refer to the black market of the products that exist, because since there are no returnables, the ones that are going to exist in the rest of the country, are the ones that exist right now, what are people going to do, are they going to buy them in Yucatan, to Campeche, to neighboring entities, and they are going to bring them to Quintana Roo, and they are going to be sold in the trunks of vehicles and informally,” he pointed out.
In this sense, the business leader warned that, in the particular case of Quintana Roo, when it comes into force next June of this year, which prohibits the marketing of products that make use of plastic, it will make the citizens of this state go to states close to acquiring them.
However, he made it clear that small businesses are not against the measures decreed for the protection of the environmentas well as the natural resources that promote the circular economy, although he indicated that currently, in a pandemic context, there are no conditions to implement them without causing damage to the sector, for which they request that a extension in order to adapt to changes.
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“It is not so much because we are opposed to going backwards, but a regulation that is not agreed upon in a democratic manner, it is a regulation that is doomed to failure, born with a dead letter, because the regulation may exist but no one is going to comply with it, no one it will recognize it as valid, because it is a regulation that is out of common sense. Ideally, this regulation would repeal it and discuss it again, hey, we don’t have enough muscle for that, well, give me an extension so that it can come into effect,” said the Anpec president.
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