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"We will promote easy access to tap water on the streets of Europe to reduce demand for bottled water" - European Commission, May 29 2018

Breaking news: plastic bottels, Q-tips, straws, disposable cutlery, coffee cups, balloons, candy wrappers and other throwaway single use plastics that take 5 seconds to produce and 500 years to degrade need to banned, announce the EU this week. The EU is waging war against plastic waste as part of an urgent plan to clean up Europe's act and ensure that every piece of packaging on the continent is reusable or recyclable by 2030.

Following China's decision to ban imports of foreign recyclable material, Brussels last Tuesday launched a plastics strategy designed to change minds in Europe, potentially tax damaging behaviour of manufacturers, and modernise plastic production and collection by investing €350m in research. 

Most importantly, 9 out of 10 plastic bottles should be separated and collected in the form of deposit systems and caps and lids no longer may be detached from bottles! Moreover, the commission announced it will promote easy access to tap water on the streets of Europe to reduce demand for bottled water, and they will promote easy access to tap water on the streets of Europe to reduce demand for bottled water, and they will provide member states with additional guidance on how to improve the sorting and collection of recyclable plastic by consumers.

Europe is taking steps in the right direction!

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