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Quote: The single-use plastics legislation will address 70 percent of marine litters items, avoiding environmental damage that would otherwise cost €22 billion
by oezi 3y ago
Quote: The single-use plastics legislation will address 70 percent of marine litters items, avoiding environmental damage that would otherwise cost €22 billion by 2030.
It may seem weird to you, but we need to develop good regulations to deal with all the negative externalities.
For instance, I think we could have also added a recycling fee per plastic item sold (say 5 cents). This would have made it more economical to sell bigger units and avoid technically unnecessary items such as the tear-off rings on bottles.
- vjerancrnjak 3y agoCroatia already has that ~7 cent tax on the container. Don’t know how that worked out. I know the capital has no recycling infrastructure. The tourists make no effort to collect that tax. But the paper straw legislation was botched by allowing forever chemicals.
- coldtea 3y agoI seriously doubt the accuracy of their estimations.
- flir 3y ago> technically unnecessary items such as the tear-off rings on bottles. Aren't they a tamper-proofing mechanism?
- nvm0n2 3y agoVirtually all plastic in the oceans comes from Asia. For the rest, there are ways to filter it from river outflows using bubble barriers. There's a demonstration project in Amsterdam that successfully capture floating plastic garbage without inhibiting boat traffic.