Posted on 10/26/2018 9:50:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The European Union Parliament has voted to ban single-use plastics.
Parliament, the EU’s legislative body comprised of 751 elected members (MEPs), voted 571-53 in favor of the bill. Banned items will include plastic plates, cutlery, and straws, and the proposal also calls for a reduction in the use of other single-use food and beverage containers such as plastic cups, according to the BBC.
The European Commission, which proposes legislation to the EU Parliament, put forward the ban in May in response to ongoing public awareness of and outcry against plastic pollution, particularly in the world’s oceans. The MEP behind the bill, Frédérique Ries, called the vote “a victory for our oceans, for the environment and for future generations.”
The EU, the world’s second-largest consumer market after the United States, hopes the ban could go into effect across the bloc as early as 2021. If the ban becomes a fully-formed directive before the end of the Brexit transition, the United Kingdom will have to incorporate the guidelines into national law.
The U.S. has also been slowly adopting plastics bans in cities and across states. The city of Seattle and the state of California have already banned single-use plastic straws in specific contexts such as full-service restaurants, and several more cities and states are considering following suit. Some companies have also been proactively promising to ditch plastic straws and single-use plastic packaging, including Starbucks and Ikea.
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“Why can’t the European Union let individual countries decide whether to ban straws?”
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Hi, reaganaut1-
It’s all about the power. Seeing which folks crumble like cookies and which folks have to be worked with...pressured, threatened, and the like....
Change the packaging:
“Plastic plates: Now washable! Good for multiple uses!!”
Straws might be problematic, but you could also push them as washable, if you had to.
So much for sovereignty. Who are they kidding. Germany wants a WORLD government....just like the old days.
Leftists love to ‘BAN’ stuff.............They don’e like to create stuff like jobs................
Western nations take responsibility for their trash.
Got to wonder reaganaut1,
This means going to the use of steel as it’s a cheaper form of usage. China and bamboo or other woods are to expensive and untenable in the long use. This means running steel mills and using a lot more water for cleansing and steam for drying.
Unless they’re going to try to force (ahem...influence) folks to carry a set of implements with them.
Can you imagine what damage could be done during a fight with the wrong crowds??? And if a knife is used from a place to maim/kill someone would the business then be held liable for the usage of the knife or fork in the crime? Tantalizing questions.... LOL
The EU are SOCIALISTS. Taking rights away from the people and placing CONTROL in the government, is what they do.
Shows how bankrupt socialists are.
And abortion
The EU is the Fourth Reich. Needs to be terminated to enable the many peoples, nations to be free again
” It looks like the only freedom the Left supports is buggery.”
And they’re making that mandatory.
Sounds like California is running the EU.
Correct. In short, dope, abortion, and buggery.
Not only a right, but a "secular" sacrament.
Well, there goes McDonald’s Big Breakfasts.
Maybe they will go back to using the paper straws that were around when I was a kid. They were great! Most of the time they wilted before you could finish your milkshake. Just Great!!!
Sometimes, I wash plastic utensils but not plates.
Why not just ban take-out food? Eat it there or at home. Just kidding. But doesn’t the energy and water required to wash the dishes sort of offset the environmental impact of so called single use plastics?
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