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| tags: | #plastic litter, #single use plastic, #marine litter, #plastic pollution, #Environment Comitee, #sea life, #European Parliament |
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| located: | Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg |
| by: | Deniz Zehra Tavli |
Plastic packaging waste is a huge problem around the world. Despite efforts in some European countries, such as plastic bottle deposit schemes or having to pay for plastic bags in the supermarket, the average EU citizen creates 31kg of plastic waste per year. The situation is most severe in Ireland, where 61kg of packaging is thrown away by the average Irish person, which is 9kg more than in the second most 'prolific' country, Luxembourg. The least waste is produced in Bulgaria, where a more managable 14kg is disposed of over the year.
The EU Parliament Environment Committee just voted in favor of adopting a series of great steps to strengthen a law reducing plastic pollution - but in the same breath installed a dangerous loophole: a legal definition of “single-use plastic” that could allow polluters to simply market their throwaway polluting plastic products as "reusable".
MEPs can propose additional changes before they all vote on the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive on October 23. They must fix this massive mistake, and resist industry pressure to weaken the law.
Tell the European Parliament to fix the proposed plastics law, so corporations radically reduce their single-use plastic pollution, and sea life can breathe again!
Credits: statista.com, sumofus
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