Emblem of popular culture and fast food, polystyrene kebab boxes are prohibited from Thursday, as recalled by the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili, visiting a fast-food restaurant in Nanterre, in the suburbs. Parisian.
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Polystyrene packaging used in fast food restaurants can no longer be offered from July 1, as provided for in the anti-waste law of 2020 aimed at the phasing out of single-use plastics.
"
It is a material that takes 1000 years to destroy itself in the environment, when a plastic bag takes 450 years,
" said the minister from a wholesale sign in Nanterre, in the Hauts-de-Seine.
11 kebabs per second
"
We take the kebab boxes which are a bit emblematic, because each year you have 350 million kebabs that are consumed, which makes 11 per second
", added Ms. Pompili, in front of the recyclable alternatives now offered, such as boxes in cardboard, pulp or expanded polypropylene.
"
We will not find a perfect solution right away, but it is a step forward
", she also indicated, before going to a fast food restaurant to see the application of this measure, and to taste itself a so-called “
complete
”
kebab
with the traditional salad-tomato-onion trio.
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The minister also praised the record of France as a “
good pupil
” of the European Union in the fight against single-use plastics. The Anti-Waste for a Circular Economy Law (AGEC), passed in February 2020, requires moving towards 100% recycling of single-use plastic packaging by 2025. Polystyrene kebab boxes were banned since January 1, with a tolerance for depletion of stocks which ended on July 1.