EU announces plans to ban cotton buds, straws and balloon sticks in a crackdown on single use plastics
Brussels laid out plans to ban cotton buds and plastic straws in a bid to prevent waste ending up in ‘our air, our soil, our oceans and our food’.
The European Commission proposed outlawing a whole range of single-use plastic products including cutlery, balloon sticks and drink stirrers.
It said it wanted to see almost all plastic bottles collected for recycling by 2025. And it said it wanted to place more of the burden of cleaning up waste on manufacturers.
The pledge, from Frans Timmermans, the vice president of the European Commission, comes a month after Britain blazed a train by proposing a crackdown on single-use plastics.
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Tue 29 May 2018 at 08:46
