China's largest plastic bag maker has closed following a state-led environmental campaign discouraging plastics use, the Daily Mail reports.
China launched a surprise crackdown on plastic bags in January, banning production of ultra-thin bags and forbidding its supermarkets and shops from handing out free carrier bags from 1 June.
Suiping Huaqiang Plastic Company, owned by Guangzhou-based Nanqiang Plastic Industrial Ltd and employing 20,000 workers, stopped production in mid-January.
"Our factory has officially closed, we are in the process of liquidation and there are very few people on hand," an employee said.
The pressure from the crackdown proved too much for the plastics giant which produces 250,000 tons of plastic bags valued at 2.2bn yuan (£156m) annually.
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