{"id":17146,"date":"2020-08-04T12:17:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/aruba-select-plastic-laws\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:38:40","slug":"aw_plasticlaws","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/resource\/aw_plasticlaws","title":{"rendered":"Aruba: Seleccionar leyes pl\u00e1sticas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aruba<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overheid.aw\/document.php?m=55&amp;fileid=65641&amp;f=888b0e306a4ea7fff65078060bcd3788&amp;attachment=0&amp;c=46717\">Landsverordening verbod voor het milieu, Afkondigingsblad van Aruba 2019 no. 67 [National Ordinance prohibiting environmentally harmful products, Bulletin of Aruba 2019 no. 67]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To protect the environment, in 2019, Aruba banned\u00a0the import, manufacture, sale, or free distribution of a list of products made of plastic or polystyrene that are intended for single use. Id., Art. 2(1). The products include plastic bags with handles (except those used for duty-free purchase at the airport), utensils including chopsticks, cups, stirrers, straws (except those used for medical purposes), plates, food packaging (with a few exceptions), and bags to be used for unwrapped fruit and vegetables; and polystyrene cups, plates, and certain food packaging including boxes for fast-food. Id, Annex 1 (A) and (B). The ban came into effect on 1 July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The law bans the release into the air of balloons or plastic confetti. Id., Art. 17.<\/p>\n<p>[In addition, the law bans the import, manufacture, sale or free distribution of sunscreen that includes oxybenzone. Id., Art. 2(2) and Annex 1(C).]<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Aruba banned the use of plastic bags\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.overheid.aw\/document.php?m=55&amp;fileid=23449&amp;f=a4f862447399eb2382d300a2a869391f&amp;attachment=0&amp;c=28846\">Law no. 46 of 2016<\/a>)\u00a0with handles which are intended for single use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En 2019, Aruba prohibi\u00f3 la importaci\u00f3n, fabricaci\u00f3n, venta o distribuci\u00f3n gratuita de una lista de productos fabricados con pl\u00e1stico de un solo uso o poliestireno.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","resource-topic":[1989],"resource-type":[531],"resource-category":[30097],"content-for-websites":[30105],"region":[545,533],"class_list":["post-17146","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry","resource-topic-plastic","resource-type-laws","resource-category-legal","content-for-websites-plastic","region-aruba","region-caribbean"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/17146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resource-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-topic?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-type?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"resource-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-category?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"content-for-websites","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-for-websites?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elaw.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}