PPWR: The Recycling Fairy Tale Gets a Sequel

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SATIRE — After decades of recycling targets, coloured bins, collection schemes and inspirational arrows chasing each other in circles, the EU has concluded that the recycling fairy tale simply needed a sequel.

Enter PPWR: bigger targets, better labels, more recycling and, naturally, more rules.

Brussels promises that this time the story will have a happy ending.

The previous 40 years? Apparently just the pilot episode.

At some point, however, one small question remains: how exactly are they going to make all that waste disappear?

Perhaps that’s being saved for the finale.

Coming soon: Recycling III — The Return of the Waste.

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