France is the first country to ban the sale of plastic cups and plates for environmental reasons

Cups, forks, knives, forks, plastic fast food containers . were banned from sale in France to minimize environmental pollution. The ban began to take effect last month, and it immediately faced a wave of protests from consumers as well as plastic manufacturing companies.

Users cannot buy, manufacturing companies cannot sell and the French government requires that by 2020, plastic manufacturing companies have to change technology to ensure all plates and cups. . sold in France must be made of biological and biodegradable materials.

Plastic bags (plastic bags) have been banned from use in France since July this year and many other countries and some states in the United States have also made similar bans. However, convenient items such as plastic cups, forks, spoons, knives . no country has issued a ban. The above ban stemmed from a conference on global warming impacts hosted by France last year and the French Socialist Party urged the authorities to act to become the leader in France. dynamic environmental improvement.

This ban has a significant impact on people's living habits.

While many eco-organizations support this law in the hope that other countries will respond, there are also mixed opinions. Most of these opinions suggest that the ban will affect consumers and it also violates the laws of free trade in goods issued by the European Union (EU).

Imagine that you live in France, when you go out, it is impossible to buy fast food stored in plastic containers, going out for picnics can not buy plastic plates for drinking barbecue and office people also face many difficulties. because the automatic coffee machines no longer release both coffee and cup as always . In general , this ban has a big impact on people's living habits.

If other countries responded and issued a similar ban, many businesses would be in a difficult position. Pack2Go Europe - an organization based in Brussels, Belgium, representing packaged product manufacturers, said they will fight to the end. Eamonn Bates - secretary general of Pack2Go Europe said: "We are trying to convince the European Commission to do the right thing and take legal action because France violated European law. If they can't, we will do! ".

The original ban was proposed by the European Ecologie-Greens Party Environmental Party and received by French lawmakers with the goal of reducing energy consumption and waste from the plastics processing industry as well as pollution impacts. caused by plastic waste.

The ban is valid and whether a plastic plate or knife is not sold.

Ecologists want the ban to be released as early as 2017 but postponed until 2020 by the French minister of environment - Segolene Royal initially opposed this law. Royal said this was a law contrary to society and argued that many families would have financial difficulties when using tableware made of recycled materials.

The ban has come into effect and whether a disc or a plastic knife is not sold unless they are made of bio-based materials that can be decomposed into organic waste forms.

Eamonn Bates argues that there is no evidence that tableware made of biodegradable materials has more environmental benefits and no bioplastic product can decompose into organic waste. muscle.

Bates said the ban "will make users understand that they can freely leave garbage as bio-plastic utensils in the suburbs after use because they are easily biodegradable in the natural environment." This is meaningless! It even makes the problem worse. "