(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 22 - Over 100 public health experts and researchers from eighteen countries, including Italy, have signed a direct declaration to consumers, retailers, companies and the political class claiming that "reusable containers are safe alternatives for health the Covid-19 emergency "and" thus rejecting the proclamations of the plastic industry all over the world ". This was announced in a well-known Greenpeace Italy which together with Upstream is part of the organizations of the international coalition Break FreeFrom Plastic against pollution and the spread of plastic.
"The promotion of unnecessary disposable plastic objects for the alleged reduction of coronavirus exposure - explains Dr Mark Miller, former research director at the FogartyInternational Center of the National Institutes of Health in the US- generates a negative impact on the environment, the seas and on the water compared to the safe use of washable and reusable bags, containers and tools ". The initialed declaration also underlines that "daily household disinfectants and detergents are effective in disinfecting the surfaces of reusable containers". An answer - the note follows - to postponements and temporary suspensions on prohibitions, regulations and taxation, including the plastic tax in our country, registered all over the world during the pandemic.
For Giuseppe Ungherese, Greenpeace's pollution campaign manager, "taking advantage of the crises to promote disposable plastic, scaring people on the use of bags, containers and other reusable objects, thus obtaining the suspension of measures against the plastic industry, is the proof that this system is rotten. " "To keep people safe and protect our home," he concludes, "we have to listen to science instead of the subtle market of the plastic industry that continues to make profits at the expense of the planet." (HANDLE).
Coronavirus: Greenpeace, safe reusable containers
2020-06-23T14:14:57.423Z
(HANDLE)(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 22 - Over 100 public health experts and researchers from eighteen countries, including Italy, have signed a direct declaration to consumers, retailers, companies and the political class claiming that "reusable containers are safe alternatives for health the Covid-19 emergency "and" thus rejecting the proclamations of the plastic industry all over the world ". This was announced...