European Parliament to act on single use plastic pollution

In order to reduce marine litter European Parliament has voted to ban a range of single-use plastics across the European Union. The European Union proposed a ban of single-use plastics earlier in May this year following the demand from public to reduce and fight marine litter. The proposal asked for EU wide rules that would target “10 single-use plastic products most often found on Europe’s beaches and seas, as well as lost and abandoned fishing gear. Together these constitute 70% of all marine litter items.”

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