SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment

Greens' recipe for effectively tackling pollution by single-use plastics

Brussels, 23/05/2018 (Agence Europe)

The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament is delighted that the Commission is planning to present a draft directive on Monday 28 May to reduce the use of single-use plastics in the European Union (see EUROPE 12016).

But it is against a number of criteria – including stopping the use of such plastics which are clogging up the oceans – that the group will judge the proposal, two MEPs told a small group of journalists on Tuesday 22 May.

Proposing a ban on plastic-stemmed cotton buds,...