- 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.”