France to introduce plastic packaging tax

In an interview on Sunday's newspaper, officials from the Ministry of the Environment stated that France is planning to introduce an excellent system for consumer goods packaged in non recycled plastics.

The French government promises to recycle 100% of the country's plastics by 2025 to reduce the amount of plastic entering the sea.

Secretary of State for ecological change Brune Poirson told Journal du Dimanche that the government will take a series of measures.

By 2020, extra alternative plastic products such as straws, cups and plates will be banned

Low Interest Rate: Only 25% of French plastic is recycled. Although supermarkets prohibit the use of disposable plastic bags, France wants to take serious measures to achieve the goal of the European Commission

"It is not enough to just declare a plastic war, we need to change the French economy," Poirson told the newspaper. "When there is a choice between two bottles, one is made of recycled plastic, the other is not so, the first is cheaper," she said.

Flore Berlingen of the Zero Waste French Association told AFP:

Emmanuel Guichard of Elipso Plastic Packaging Manufacturers Association expressed a cautious welcome. "In the case of bottles, consumers can make choices, but other products can not be forgotten, either.

Plastic Growth: In the past decade the world's plastic production grew by more than 40%. This is mainly due to packaging.

The position of the EU: The European Commission set the priority on reducing the plastic to that group, and in May it enacted a law requiring the use of alternative materials and incentives for companies

Plastic Soup: In the 2015 survey, about 8 million tons (8.8 million US tons) of plastic was annually disposed of in the sea. Plastics form large amounts of floating waste, but they break down into small particles and enter the food chain.

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Following the footprints of Scotland and Wales, a plastic bag tax (5 pence / bag) for all disposable plastic bags was introduced in the UK in October 2015. These regulations comply with directives and other changes on the EU packaging and packaging waste revised in 2015 to set targets for reducing the use of disposable plastic bags and the latest waste plastic waste Represents a prevention program. Comments on Wales' plastic bag tax indicate that this policy can stimulate several changes and the proportion of disposable plastic bags used in Wales will decrease by 71% between 2011 and 2014 Did.

Strong resistance to packaging waste, especially plastics is also increasing. California banned the use of plastic bags in 2016. In April this year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a bill prohibiting the use of plastic bags throughout New York. In many cities and counties throughout the country there are bans or fees for the use of plastic bags. As a result, the grocery store was forced to reevaluate packaging options. Several market entrepreneurs have seen an imaginable solution for the largest store change: to fully design food waste by making a so-called lean grocery store. Over the past decade, some retailers have begun to reconsider waste footprints and design stores that encourage them to bring their own containers. Refilling specialty store in Ventura, California is one such store. Shops claiming to be "environmentally conscious" sell large quantities of bathtubs, body fluids and domestic liquids