Plans for virgin plastic packaging to become more expensive / Higher landfill taxation / Environment ministry calls for radical restructuring of French economy / Marine litter mission
France has plans to implement a series of measures, including a penalty system, to promote plastic waste recycling. The Ministre à la Transition écologique et solidaire is urging a "radical behavioural change" of the French population. In an interview with weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, French secretary of state for ecological and inclusive transition Brune Poirson said she wanted to trigger "an electric shock" on behaviour in the country. Plastic bottles are usually only held for "a few... (17.08.2018)