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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10799

6 March 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
Plastic pollution tackled at brainstorming session

Brussels, 05/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - Regulation may be necessary in the EU to bring in a total ban on plastic bags that are transforming the world's seas and oceans into “plastic soup”, but the European Commission is not yet decided. After the public consultation exercise on the subject in May 2011, it will resort to a Green Paper on Wednesday to launch a more far-reaching debate on the best way to tackle general plastic pollution within the EU. Plastic pollution is a major source of...

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