While the level of ambition varies considerably from one Member State to another, overall it remains insufficient for Europe to really move away from single use of plastics and towards the circular economy, according to the NGOs Rethink Plastic Alliance and Break Free From Plastic, on the basis of their first implementation report published on 1 July, two days before the entry into force of EU Directive 2019/904, which requires the EU27 to ban the 10 most common disposable plastic...