PRevised in February 2020, the Agec law (“Anti-waste for a circular economy”) is sluggish. Work of former Secretary of State Brune Poirson – who has since gone back to the private sector – it stages the ban on single-use plastic over time. Every January 1st, the noose tightens a little more.
The movement started in 2020, even before the law was set in stone, with the prohibition of cups and cotton swabs. Last year, it was the turn of straws, cutlery, stirrers and boxes …