The European war against plastic could also overwhelm paper and biodegradable plastic. The EU Commission is retouching the details of the guidelines with the tip of a fine brush. In a few days the guidelines will be closed and formalized. And the storm against disposable plates and plastic forks could also jeopardize cardboard cups such as those for draft drinks, milk cartons, recycled paper plates, bric of fruit juice from prick with straw, biodegradable plastic knives and so on. For the “plastebans” it is all plastic that is horrible to condemn.
The European paper and cardboard industry is on the alert, and in Italy the alarm is double, triple, because the extensiveness of the European rule could paralyze some sectors of which there is the primacy such as paper cups and crockery for fast food catering of which Italy is the main European producer with 35% of the market. It is no coincidence that in recent days the Minister of Economic Development, Giancarlo Giorgetti, met Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni in Brussels and if the Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani had to say that the applications are sustainable.
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Also present were the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, Girolamo Marchi of the Paper and Graphics Federation and the industrialist Antonio D’Amato, a very strong manufacturer of containers for food and liquids.
War against plastic
The context, explained briefly. Driven by many environmentally sensitive people who hate plastics, the EU Commission conducted a survey to understand which plastics dirty European beaches. Cigarette filters, pieces of fish crates, thong soles, fragments of fishing net, cotton buds, disposable plates, empty bottles of bleach, fishing floats and so on.
The Sup directive (Single use plastics, disposable plastics) which imposes restrictions on the use of single-use plastic products or products containing plastic parts, rather than reinforcing their recycling after use. The main producers in Europe of thin plastic plates (the white polystyrene ones) are Italian.