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Disposable plastics: despite the law which should reduce our consumption, the trend is not good

2024-02-10T06:03:34.457Z

Highlights: Despite the law which should reduce our consumption, the trend is not good. Four years after the introduction of the Agec law, certain disposable plastics have indeed fallen into the dustbin of history. A cardboard straw for enjoying a cocktail, wooden cutlery and stirrers, sheets of paper for wrapping hamburgers or even Ecocups at summer festivals. The generalization of these disposable utensils and packaging, now made from less polluting materials rather than disposable plastic, is the more visible face of a text which contains many other measures... sometimes very poorly applied or not at all.


Four years after the introduction of the Agec law, certain disposable plastics have indeed fallen into the dustbin of history. Missing


A cardboard straw for enjoying a cocktail, wooden cutlery and stirrers, sheets of paper for wrapping hamburgers or even Ecocups at summer festivals.

Just four years after its promulgation on February 10, 2020, the Anti-waste law for a circular economy (Agec) has changed our eating habits.

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The generalization of these disposable utensils and packaging, now made from less polluting materials rather than disposable plastic, is the more visible face of a text which contains many other measures... sometimes very poorly applied or not at all.

Enough to threaten ambitious objectives, such as the end of “single-use” plastic packaging by 2040 or halving the number of plastic bottles by 2030.

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