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: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday March 28 2019, @10:05AM (6 children)
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 28 2019, @10:24AM (3 children)
It'd be Ok if you recycle the water by distillation and reuse it in making other beer.
You know? Like it already happens now with the water cycle on Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 28 2019, @03:29PM (2 children)
Yet we seem squeamish about the same process on a smaller scale, such as a space station.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday March 28 2019, @07:51PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @06:40AM
You should have seen the people come out of the woodwork when the local water authority floated the idea of saving money by piping the output of the sewage plant to the water treatment plant. Good lord, you'd think they suggested people drink raw sewage.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Thursday March 28 2019, @04:32PM
Get with the times, FatPhil! :-)
beer recycling (2015-07-03) [soylentnews.org]
Disclaimer: it was me who posted that to soylentnews.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday March 28 2019, @05:35PM
Regurgitate. Reswig. Repeat.
American mainstream beer tastes like plastic anyway.
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