Plastics legislation is often incredibly patchwork and politicised-feeling. It’s a good idea,but I kind of think Extended Producer Responsibility would have gotten the job done better.
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cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 months agoBut are they though? Personally i see many bottles littered and even more lids from cups. Actually why are straws replaced with paper but the lids are still plastic? And why not ban plastic bottles alltogether like they’ve done with so many other things?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
BossDj@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I don’t know, it’s what they said. Maybe bottles are easier to clean up. They said “among” the most frequent items, so perhaps you’re right that those other things are worse, but there haven’t been reasonable alternatives suggested
Vilian@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
it’s a change expected to prevent 10% of the litter in european beaches, to be fair, the true fix could be ban plastic lol