At a G8 environment session on 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle), Japanese Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita said that as the use of plastic shopping bags indicates heavy consumption of resources as well as dumping of a great deal of waste to the environment, it is of special importance to make joint efforts in this respect.
Japan, China and South Korea should thus made concerted efforts to urge the G8 members, Asian nations and the rest of the world at large to give priority to curbing the production of waste, and to cut down on the production and use of plastic shopping bags in particular.
Three major issues of biodiversity, climate change and 3Rs are on the agenda of the three-day conference.
The Group of Eight is composed of the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, and Russia, the eight leading industrial nations, whose heads of government hold regular meetings known as the G8 summit.
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