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National governments must follow suit, say campaigners The European Parliament has leapt forward to protect people and the environment from plastic pollution, but national governments must now show the same ambition, according to the Rethink Plastic alliance. An overwhelming majority in the European Parliament voted today to strengthen the European Commission’s plan to cut pollution …
European Parliament takes historic stand against single-use plastic pollutionRead more
European Parliament must close loopholes, say Rethink Plastic campaigners Producers could simply market items like throwaway plastic cups as reusable, under changes to a draft EU laws on single-use plastics tabled today in the European Parliament, the Rethink Plastic alliance of NGOs has warned. The European Parliament’s environment committee voted on a proposal that would …
Plastic producers could market single-use items as reusable to dodge EU banRead more
Renda Belmallem has worked for 6 months at Focus/Friends of the Earth Slovenia and has now returned to her home country France. Here she reflects on the recent ‘Post-Growth 2018 Conference’ in the European Parliament from the perspective of the Degrowth movement. In case you ever wondered why the European Commission doesn’t give up building …
Today – on a global day of action to end poverty, reduce inequalities, and tackle climate change – a coalition of civil society organisations has launched a manifesto with core demands for the political leadership of the EU and the candidates in the 2019 European Elections. The ‘Manifesto for a Sustainable Europe for its Citizens’ …
Manifesto for a Sustainable Europe for its CitizensRead more
Biodegradable and compostable plastics do not prevent plastic pollution and should not be an excuse to keep consuming single-use plastics, the European Parliament recognised in a vote today. The Parliament voted to strengthen the European Commission’s plans to slash plastic pollution, under the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy launched in January 2018. …
European Parliament says biodegradable plastics will not solve plastic pollutionRead more
Many new ideas for an economic paradigm shift have been developed and discussed at the academic and grassroots levels in recent years. In these discussion papers we engage in a more in-depth analysis of three policy ideas that can move Europe towards an economy that can provide for all its citizens while keeping within planetary …
