The French government on Tuesday postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to 2030 because of difficulties finding alternatives.<\/p>\n
The ban was meant to start on 1 January. But the ministry for ecological transition said the \u201ctechnical feasibility of eliminating plastic from cups\u201d following a review this year justified pushing back the deadline.<\/p>\n
It said in an official decree that a new review would be carried out in 2028 of \u201cprogress made in replacing single-use plastic cups\u201d. It added that the ban would now start 1 January 2030, when companies would have 12 months to get rid of their stock.<\/p>\n
France has gradually rolled out bans on single-use plastic products over the past decade as environmental campaigners have stepped up warnings about the impact on rivers and oceans.<\/p>\n
A 2020 law set a deadline of 2040 to eliminate all single-use plastics. A ban on plastic bags for loads of less than 1.5 kilogrammes of 30 fruit and vegetables was introduced in 2022 and has dramatically changed supermarket habits.<\/p>\n
But the government\u2019s DGCCRF consumer protection agency said in a report released last year that almost a fifth of about 100 companies it checked in 2023 were breaching regulations on the production or use of single-use plastic items.<\/p>\n
Its investigators said some marketed plastic-free products that in reality contained plastic, and some changed the name of the item in a bid to get around the ban.<\/p>\n
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