#Plastic
Plastic pollution is choking our rivers and oceans. It's time for the European Union to drive a switch to genuine alternatives (not bioplastic) and to compel plastic producers to take responsibility for pollution.
Plastic pollution is choking our rivers and oceans. It's time for the European Union to drive a switch to genuine alternatives (not bioplastic) and to compel plastic producers to take responsibility for pollution.
January 2020
Today, 102 environmental organisations are launching the “Blue Manifesto” – a rescue plan that lays out concrete actions to turn the tide on Earth’s ever-degraded and polluted oceans and coastlines. …
May 2019
European ministers have approved much-anticipated laws to slash single-use plastics in the EU at a meeting in Brussels. The new laws to reduce single-use plastics were negotiated between the European…
December 2018
After months of intense negotiations, the EU has agreed much-anticipated laws to slash single-use plastics in the EU.
October 2018
National governments must follow suit and cut single-use plastic, Greenpeace Strasbourg, 24 October 2018 – The European Parliament has voted to protect people and the environment from the most common single-use…
October 2018
European Parliament must close loopholes, say campaigners Brussels – Producers could simply market items like throwaway plastic cups as reusable, under changes to a draft EU laws on single-use plastics…
September 2018
Strasbourg – Biodegradable and compostable plastics do not prevent plastic pollution and should not be an excuse to keep consuming single-use plastics, the European Parliament recognised in a vote today.