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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @06:31AM (4 children)
Or are we switching to thicker gloves which impair surgeons ability to feel?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @07:32AM
Nah, by the time this kicks in all surgery will be done via robotic systems controlled by a remote
doctormedical student. No gloves needed, crisis averted...(Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Thursday March 28 2019, @09:11AM
Future surgeons can't use their hands anyway, I read it on SN.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday March 28 2019, @12:09PM (1 child)
My single-use beer comment was silly, and supposed to be taken as a throwaway joke (boom, boom), but drawing an equivalence between surgical waste and mcdonalds straws with a straight face is really missing the point.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @12:18PM
I'm just over assuming laws are written by people who look at the edge cases.
So many laws lack reasonable exceptions and rely on prosecutorial discretion it's an affront to rule of law.