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EU Parliament Votes to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Including Plates, Cutlery, and Straws
Fortune ^ | October 24, 2018 | BRITTANY SHOOT

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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KEYWORDS: eu; europe; europeanunion; food; straws; tyranny
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Why can't the European Union let individual countries decide whether to ban straws? (I oppose a ban.) It looks like the only freedom the Left supports is buggery.
1 posted on 10/26/2018 9:50:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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It looks like the only freedom the Left supports is buggery.

And dope use.
2 posted on 10/26/2018 9:53:45 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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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....


3 posted on 10/26/2018 9:56:31 AM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: reaganaut1

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.


4 posted on 10/26/2018 9:57:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: reaganaut1

So much for sovereignty. Who are they kidding. Germany wants a WORLD government....just like the old days.


5 posted on 10/26/2018 9:57:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: reaganaut1

Leftists love to ‘BAN’ stuff.............They don’e like to create stuff like jobs................


6 posted on 10/26/2018 9:58:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (I lie to pollsters......................ALL Of THEM!...................)
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To: reaganaut1
The source of the ocean plastic problem is China, India, Africa, and certain countries.

Western nations take responsibility for their trash.

7 posted on 10/26/2018 10:00:26 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: reaganaut1

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


8 posted on 10/26/2018 10:01:20 AM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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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.


9 posted on 10/26/2018 10:01:24 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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The EU is on a slow march back to the stone age. They've already imported the savages and pagan religion. They are working on eliminating coal and electricity and shivering in the dark just like back in “the good old days”. And as in the third world, they'll soon be drinking their soy juice from a tin cup chained to a vendor's street cart, the cup carelessly wiped out with an old rag after each customer.
 
10 posted on 10/26/2018 10:02:08 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Nuke the Caravan!)
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To: Army Air Corps

And abortion


11 posted on 10/26/2018 10:02:28 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reaganaut1

The EU is the Fourth Reich. Needs to be terminated to enable the many peoples, nations to be free again


12 posted on 10/26/2018 10:05:21 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: reaganaut1

” It looks like the only freedom the Left supports is buggery.”
And they’re making that mandatory.


13 posted on 10/26/2018 10:06:26 AM PDT by _longranger81 (Gettin' our Mega-MAGA-Mojo on!)
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To: EagleUSA

Sounds like California is running the EU.


14 posted on 10/26/2018 10:06:34 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: reg45

Correct. In short, dope, abortion, and buggery.


15 posted on 10/26/2018 10:07:12 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: reg45
And abortion

Not only a right, but a "secular" sacrament.

16 posted on 10/26/2018 10:09:29 AM PDT by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society.")
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To: reaganaut1

Well, there goes McDonald’s Big Breakfasts.


17 posted on 10/26/2018 10:10:29 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: reaganaut1

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!!!


18 posted on 10/26/2018 10:11:46 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: ClearCase_guy

Sometimes, I wash plastic utensils but not plates.


19 posted on 10/26/2018 10:11:57 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: reaganaut1

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?


20 posted on 10/26/2018 10:13:08 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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