만점 Economics HL (Microeconomics) IA May 2022 – Grade 7

본 문서는 가장 최근 2022년 May에 제출된 Economics HL Microeconomics (Commentary 1) IA이며, 7을 받았습니다.
Non-exam route로 IA 비중이 급격히 커졌음에 불구하고 공식 IBO에서도 최종 7을 받은 IA입니다.
Key concept은 sustainability이며 Market failure, Externality, Tax, Surplus 등이 포함되어 있습니다.

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Israel Proposes New Tax To Reduce Single-Use Plastic Consumption

By NoCamels Team July 20, 2021

The Israeli government has put forward a plan to double purchase taxes on single-use plastics and disposable plasticware in a bid to reduce consumption by up to 40 percent and help better protect the environment.

The Israeli Finance and Environmental Protection Ministries said in a joint statement on Monday that they will advance the proposal for approval by the Knesset’s finance committee and the new 100 percent tax on disposable utensils could take effect by early 2022.

Israelis use an average of 7.5 kilograms (16.5 pounds) of single-use plastics per person every year, five times the amount in the European Union, the ministries said pointing to environmental research conducted on their behalf by a private company.

Plastic consumption in Israel has doubled over the past decade and some 90 percent of the waste on Israeli beaches is plastics, according to the research.

A 2019 report by the Israel Union for Environmental Defense (Adam Teva V’Din in Hebrew), a non-profit environmental organization staffed mainly by lawyers and scientists found that Israelis spend about NIS 2 billion (approximately $57 million) on single-use plastics every year. In other words, a single Israeli household spends an average of NIS 776 (about $221) a year on disposable plastic products. A separate report that same year found that, comparatively, Israelis produce twice the international average of plastic waste per person per day (0.309 grams vs 0.139 grams)…

• 총 페이지수: 9 pages
• 과목명: Economics
• 주제: Economics HL Microeconomics IA
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