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BAN IT ALL! New plastics rule doesn’t go far enough


 

  • Writing for Bloomberg, Leonid Bershidsky applauds the European Parliament’s new rules restricting commercial use of plastics — forks, straws, coffee stirrers, balloon sticks and the like — but argues they won’t go far enough to have a meaningful impact on the environment.

 

  • The phase-outs should have hard deadlines. 

 

  • Plastic bags should be outlawed. 

 

  • Export and land-filling restrictions on plastic waste will motive action. 

 

  • Sticking the landing: “I’m happy to sip my cocktails without a straw, or with a paper one, but at this point, there’s  not much to raise a glass to.”