Macron said the following:
Can we ban plastic bottles overnight …if you ask me, I think we need a delay.
Should we impose a ban in 6 months time? It’s Impossible! It’s impossible to ban plastic bottles overnight. There are stocks.
How do we leave time to the industry to adapt?
What we need to do is to ban single use plastic immediately. That’s the most useful and needed battle.
There are ten thousands of people working in this sector. We can’t tell them: your job doesn’t exist anymore because we ban plastic bottles.
We need a substitute with a lower ecological footprint.
If you want to replace plastic bottle produced in France with a cardboard substitute that has a worse ecological footprint … even if it biodegrades faster … I don’t think it’s a good idea.
Plastique : comment permettre au secteur de s’adapter ? On ne peut pas dire aux dizaines de milliers de citoyens qui travaillent dans ce secteur : « Ton travail n’existe plus parce qu’on interdit du jour au lendemain ». pic.twitter.com/6faTdj7jdJ
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) January 10, 2020
French Plastic Federation (Plasturgie et Composites) Made the following remark on Twitter
Il aurait été plus prudent de se poser ces questions avant de mettre dans Loi des interdictions ou des réductions de mise sur le marché…
— Plasturgie & Composites (@plasturgieweb) January 11, 2020
Translation
It should have been wiser to ask yourself these questions before including bans or reduction of bottles in circulation in the Law (anti-waste Law for a Circular Economy).
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