Tag: singleuse
The EU greens its packaging, an end to single-use plastic in restaurants
After tough negotiations, MEPs and Member States agreed on this key text of the “Green Deal” which sets a target of reducing the total volume of waste by 5% by…
The EU greens its packaging, an end to single-use plastic in restaurants
Plastic waste in a processing center, in Vert-Le-Grand (Essonne), October 24, 2022 (AFP/Archives/Emmanuel DUNAND) The EU agreed on Monday to green its packaging, with the ban by 2030 of single-use…
New Zealand to ban single-use e-cigarettes and tantalizing flavor names
Disposable electronic cigarettes are criticized, both for their environmental impact and for health reasons. PHILIPPE TURPIN/PHOTONONSTOP “Too many young people are vaping, which is why we are taking action to…
England to ban single-use plastic tableware
England is in tune with the European Union (EU), and its Scottish and Welsh neighbors. London has decided to ban, from October, single-use plastic tableware in England, announced on Saturday…
Brussels at war against single-use packaging
By Leonor Hubaut Published yesterday at 7:52 p.m., Update 2 hours ago The European executive wants to impose the objective of making all packaging “fully recyclable” by 2030. Image’in –…
Can we get rid of single-use plastic with technology?
A new partnership around robotics aims to tackle a problem that seems totally insoluble: the scourge of single-use plastic. Compostable packaging company Zume, which pioneered manufacturing high-yield molded fiber packaging…
India bans single-use plastic to fight pollution
Published on 07/01/2022 at 5:52 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters by Mayank…
Single-use packaging: since January 1, the Landes kiwifruit can no longer be in plastic …
Lkiwis of the same caliber and from the same production plot tumble down the conveyor belt. Gloved hands capture them and wedge them by six in a … cardboard box.…
Single-use plastic: what is already banned, what will soon be
ECOLOGY – As of January 1, 2022, plastic packaging is banned for many fruits and vegetables. We take stock of the bans on single-use plastic already in force, and those…
As of January 1, single-use plastic becomes even more discreet
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…
Eliminate single-use plastic packaging by 2040, the government’s goal
France has just adopted an objective of “Exit from single-use plastic packaging” by 2040 but on an incentive basis, without providing at this stage for sanctions for manufacturers who continue…