France is cheesed off with EU camembert packaging rule: Fury as traditional round boxes are 'banned' by recycling law

UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/16/2023 | James Callery

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French cheesemakers are furious over an EU packaging rule that could see the round wooden boxes used to contain camembert outlawed.

A fierce debate has erupted following the proposal to sync packaging across the bloc with a requirement for it to be recyclable by 2030.

Critics have highlighted what they argue would be the prohibitive cost of recycling the wood boxes, which they say are less harmful for the environment than the plastic alternative.

[Dr. Sivana]

Are we going to have to have Japanese watermelons now?

[Ezekiel]

Claire Lacroix, chief executive of Lacroix, a company that manufactures boxes for the country's largest camembert producer, explained that introducing a recycling scheme for the wooden packaging - which has been used since the 19th century - would be too expensive, effectively banning it.

This is why we can't have Nice things.

[Liz]

Bummer.....no more Camembert (or the creamier Brie)
baked w/ herbs served in its elegant little wooden box.

[pierrem15]

Three Regs for the Nordic-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Kraut-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for puny states doomed to die,
One for the Dark Clerk on his dark throne
In the Land of Brussels where the Shadows lie.
One Reg to rule them all, One Reg to find them,
One Reg to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Brussels where the Shadows lie.

[Daveinyork]

What a cheesy thing to do. (sorry)

[j.havenfarm]

Thank you for your concerns, groggiest. Just like the English cheese makers a few years ago, we in the EU administrative state don’t care and will just continue to do what we please. Thanks for coming! don’t forget to obey!

[Scrambler Bob]

“She said: ‘Light wood packaging accounts for 0.001 per cent of household packaging waste.”

Since it is such a small amount, why bother banning ot recycling.
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Yeah.

I remember, back in the math and science days, that we could “ignore or delete ‘small values’” in order to solve equations.

[SpokeshaveReturns]

Cheese eating surrender pony dogs.
Someone post the:
Shut the F up France
We are saving civilization.

The famous “belly girl”

[ridesthemiles]

WOOD is HEAT !!!!