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France bans plastic packaging for fruit and vegetables

Fruits
Vegetables
France
Published Oct 16, 2021

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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.

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“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, said the transition to cardboard would be difficult in such a short time. “In addition, selling products in bulk is complicated because many customers are touching the fruit and people don't want their fruit to be touched by other customers,” she said. The packaging ban is part of a multi-year government program to phase out plastic From 2021, France has banned the use of plastic straws, cups and cutlery, as well as ...
Source: Foodfakty
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