Common use of Europe Bans 10 Single-Use Plastics6 Clause in Contracts

Europe Bans 10 Single-Use Plastics6. “The proposed measures can be summarised as follows (see also the table below for an overview): > market restriction: banning certain items for which affordable alternatives exist: plastic xxxxxx xxx sticks, cutlery, plates, straws, drink stirrers and sticks for balloons;consumption reduction: requiring Member States to achieve a ‘significant reduction’ in the consumption of food containers and drinks cups, for instance by setting national targets, making alternative products available to consumers, or ensuring that single-use plastic products cannot be provided free of charge; > separate collection: requiring Member States to ensure that by 2025, 90 % of single-use plastic drinks bottles are collected, for example through deposit refund schemes;> product design: requiring single-use plastics drinks containers and bottles to have their caps and lids attached; > extended producer responsibility: requiring Member States to ensure that extended producer responsibility schemes are established for a number of single-use plastic items (food containers, packets and wrappers, drinks containers and cups, cigarette filters, wet wipes, balloons and lightweight plastic bags) as well as fishing gear. For single-use plastics items, producers would cover the costs of waste management and clean-up, as well as awareness-raising measures; for fishing gear, producers would cover the costs of waste management of gear delivered to port reception facilities; labeling: requiring certain items (sanitary towels, wet wipes, and balloons) to bear a label indicating how items should be disposed of, the negative environmental impact of inappropriate disposal, and the presence of plastics in the product; > awareness-raising: requiring the Member States to raise consumers’ awareness about available re-use systems and waste management options as well as about the negative impacts of inappropriate disposal. These measures would apply to food containers, drink cups, drinks containers, balloons, packets and wrappers, cigarette filters, wet wipes, and sanitary towels, lightweight plastic carrier bags, and fishing gear”