France recently ruled to ban single-use plastic cutlery and crockery. This will take effect from 2020. Read more about this landmark decision on our blog.
This month France’s government have issued a law banning plastic cutlery from 2020.
This latest ruling is an attempt to reduce the country’s pollution and prevent the use of all oil-originating single-use plastic utensils and crockery, favouring only those made of biological material. This includes office plastic cups and plastic picnic-ware.
This decision is predictability caused anger from organisations that represent packaging manufacturers, who will attempt to fight the ban claiming it violates European Union commerce rules.
“The ban was initially proposed by the Europe Ecologie-Greens Party and was adopted by French lawmakers with the aim of reducing the energy consumed and waste produced by the plastic processing industry, as well as the pollution caused by plastic litter.” bigstory.ap.org/
Polluting plastics in our oceans are such an environmentally damaging scourge and these single-use plastics are such a huge waste of energy and materials, that this is a fantastic move towards reducing a harmful drain on the environment and hopefully an encouraging step forward that other countries will follow.
Part 2 of our focus on the Clean Energy in Australia report for 2019. This time we focus on Victoria and renewable energy in our state.
Chile was recently awarded a contract to sell solar power for $29.10 per megawatt hour; the lowest cost available across the renewable energy industry.
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