France bans plastic packaging for fruit and vegetables

France will ban plastic packaging for almost all fruit and vegetables from January 2022 to reduce plastic waste, the environment ministry said on 11 October 2021. In implementing the law of February 2020, the government published a list of around 30 fruits and vegetables that will have to be sold without plastic packaging from January 1. The list includes leeks, eggplants, and tomatoes, as well as apples, bananas, and oranges. “We use an outrageous amount of single-use plastic in our daily lives. The Circular Economy Act aims to reduce the use of single-use plastic and increase its replacement with other materials or reusable packaging and recycling, ”reads the ministry's statement. 37% of fruit and vegetables are sold packaged It is estimated that 37% of fruit and vegetables are sold packaged, and this measure is expected to prevent more than a billion of useless plastic packaging from being wasted each year. The president of the French federation of fruit sellers, Francois Roch, ...