The EU adopted new plans last week to ban single-use plastic items like plates, straws, cutlery, balloon sticks, or cotton buds - which make up over 70 percent of marine litter - by 2021. Under draft plans approved by Parliament, MEPs also added items to the banned list that contained products made of oxo-degradable plastics, like bags and fast-food containers made of expanded polystyrene. There is also a plan for several other items that do not have an alternative, like single-use burger boxes,...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/european-parliament-supports-the-ban-of-single-use-plastics
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