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Updated 23 Oct 2026

Everywhere but the Factory Island

Nineteen Caribbean jurisdictions each wrote their own rule about a shopping bag between 2013 and 2020. Four are still outside the regime, and one of those four is the only place in CARICOM that actually makes refuse bags. That is why the region's USD 27.14 million trash bag market is protected by a tariff rather than by a cost advantage — and why its real risk is a millimetre, not a policy.

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