23/08/2021 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission has decided to register the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘ReturnthePlastics’, which aims to establish a Europe-wide deposit system for the recycling of plastic bottles. The aim of the initiative is to encourage EU Member States, in line with the ‘polluter pays’ principle, to encourage supermarkets that sell plastic bottles to set up collection points and thus make producers pay to recycle them. The organisers of the initiative...