Ban on Single-Use Plastic Items

27/3/2019

MEPs approve a pan-European ban on single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery, straws, and cotton buds, which end up as waste on beaches or form an ever-increasing mass of plastic floating in the planet’s seas. The products covered by the law account for approximately 70% of all marine litter.

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