With just a few days to go before the vote of the European Parliament, scheduled for next week in Strasbourg, on the proposal for a directive aimed at limiting the use of single-use plastic, the civil society within the alliance “Rethink Plastic” urged MEPs on Wednesday 17 October to seize this “historic opportunity to lead in halting the tide of single-use plastics”.
The NGO coalition (including Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, theEEB, Zerowaste Europe) that had given the...