EU ROUND UP – MEPS BACK PLASTIC BAG REDUCTION LAW
March 15th, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s influential environment committee has backed proposed changes to the European Union (EU) packaging and packaging waste directive designed to reduce the use of lightweight plastic carrier bags. MEPs agreed that the law should tell EU member states to reduce by 80% the consumption of bags thinner than 50 microns by 2019, having halved their use by 2017. The committee said member states should have the choice of using taxes, levies, marketing restrictions or bans to achieve these ends. Danish Green MEP Margrete Auken, who coordinated the ...
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