According to a German report, the Germans have significantly reduced the number of plastic bags used in recent years, and the monthly average per capita use is less than three.
The German news agency quoted a report from the Packaging Market Research Association on the 7th that Germany used 2.4 billion plastic bags in 2017, a decrease of 1.3 billion over the previous year, a decline of more than one third. The average person uses 29 per year. The average monthly usage is 2.4. According to data from the 2015 census in Germany, the German population is more than 8.217 million. The Packaging Market Research Association report only investigates the use of plastic handbags and does not involve transparent plastic bags for packing vegetables and fruits.