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posted by martyb on Thursday March 28 2019, @04:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the California:-'We're-banning-straws!'-EU:-'Hold-my-big-gulp.' dept.

On Wednesday the EU Parliament voted to ban

single-use plastic products such as the straws, cutlery and cotton buds that are clogging the world's oceans.

The ban will take effect in 2021.

Product categories banned include: Cutlery, plates, straws, polystyrene food and drink containers, cotton swabs with plastic stems, and plastic grocery bags. Additionally,

Rules insisting that polluters pay the costs of a clean-up are strengthened, particularly for cigarette manufacturers, who will have to support the recycling of discarded filters.

According to the EU Commission, the waste caused by these products poses a threat to wildlife and fisheries.

No word on disposable diapers.


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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @05:36AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @05:36AM (#821189)

    Juat another non-solution to a non-problem, that makes everyone's lives worse

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday March 28 2019, @05:49AM (1 child)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday March 28 2019, @05:49AM (#821195) Journal

    ban the EU Parliament?

    I'm sure there is a process for doing so should there ever be a serious coherent desire. Shouldn't take much. Just vote "Dissolve", and poof! Up in smoke, like it never happened, like Bobby Ewing coming out of the shower.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @08:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @08:09AM (#821227)

      Money.
      Whenever the question is "why" the first answer to consider is "money"
      It is probably cheaper to mold plastic in to sticks than to construct waxed cardboard enmass

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Bot on Thursday March 28 2019, @09:09AM

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday March 28 2019, @09:09AM (#821233) Journal

    Funny that as an anti-EU I think they have saved the good rulings towards the end of mandate, to promote the image of EU=no borders=young environmentalists=cool LGBT parties vs. Old greybeard sovranists who want you to go to confession every time you fap, breed 4 babies, and throw their plastic waste directly in the river.

    A pity that when there were only the greybeards, in the 1970 european countries, the use of plastic was much reduced, because there was no packaging (guess what, millennials, other than not dying en masse for measles we didn't die of food poisoning, while you are the generation that does not look healthy at all). Also there was a lot of reuse (glass for bottles, that you paid for and redeemed). Single use plastic is just an aspect. Less packaging and every electronic item being repairable and sold with the hardware scheme are equally important.

    But ok, we must get used to youngsters going around striking for the environment and social justice with their new iphones bought on amazon. Every generation is hypocrite somewhere, but, damn.

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  • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Thursday March 28 2019, @04:48PM (2 children)

    by fritsd (4586) on Thursday March 28 2019, @04:48PM (#821401) Journal

    Between 23 and 26 May, depending on country.

    So in 2 months.

    https://www.european-elections.eu/ [european-elections.eu]

    If you want to ban the EU Parliament, then you probably should vote for the ENF group [enfgroup-ep.eu], Europe of Nations and Freedom [wikipedia.org], but you should research for yourself and not take my word for it.

    • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday March 28 2019, @07:46PM (1 child)

      by Sulla (5173) on Thursday March 28 2019, @07:46PM (#821480) Journal

      Junker's goal appears to be a post-civil war United States instead of a pre-civil war United States. They want all of the federal authority and lack of individual state sovereignty but they want to do it gradually and without risk of being killed.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @07:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @07:56PM (#821486)

        I always assumed that the goal of most of the euro politicians, such as Junker, was the return of the Reich.