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How does a ban like this tend to work? The chemicals can no longer be sold in stores? Or you can buy it but are not allowed to apply it to your fields?
by mac01021 9y ago
How does a ban like this tend to work? The chemicals can no longer be sold in stores? Or you can buy it but are not allowed to apply it to your fields?
- athenot 9y agoIn the past, this has been done in phases: forbid applications, reduce availability, then make it illegal.
- toyg 9y agoFTA: "will mean they can only be used in closed greenhouses." So you will be allowed to buy it, but you cannot use it on open fields.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI hope it'll be enforced, not like incandescent lightbulbs, which, months after the ban, became available again in every store as a light source "for basements and garages", with a label that says "do not use at home!".
- gmueckl 9y agoWhere did that happen? I don't see incandescent lightbulbs anywhere here.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoIn Poland. They're less popular now, but (as of ~1 year ago, which was the last time I cared to notice) you can still buy them everywhere you used to.
- dbrgn 9y agoIn Switzerland you can buy them as "heat lamps".
- pluma 9y agoSwitzerland is not part of the EU though.
- dbrgn 9y agoNo, but a lot of the restrictions (including the ban of incandescent bulbs) apply in Switzerland too: http://www.w-f.ch/wfch/de/eh/fachinfos/normen_und_verordnungen/15801/index.php http://www.w-f.ch/wfch/de/eh/fachinfos/normen_und_verordnung...
- garaetjjte 9y agoWhat's wrong with that? If somebody wants to pay more for electricity, why not let them? And besides, they have significantly different light spectrum.
- desas 9y agoThe price for electricity rarely prices in negative externalities like increased pollution.
- toyg 9y agoI believe in UK there was some sort of regulatory u-turn on the matter, following the usual tabloid-fuelled outcry.
- SCHiM 9y agoSeems like a teethless piece of legislation then :/