Brussels, 01/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission will, in the very near future, bring forward a legislative proposal on plastic bags, Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik announced on 30 September at a conference on the role of plastic waste in a circular economy.
This conference provided the commissioner with the opportunity to speak of the success of the Commission Green Paper of March on a European strategy for plastic waste in the environment in order to identify the most appropriate ways of preventing the 10 million tonnes of plastic particles found every year in the world's seas and oceans (see EUROPE 10801 and 10799). The Commission has received more than 270 responses, including from 14 environment ministers and from a number of national parliaments, the commissioner said. (AN/transl.fl)