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The European Union has proposed banning plastic products like cotton buds, straws, stirs and balloon sticks when alternatives are easily available in an attempt to reduce litter spoiling beaches and ocean beds.
The European Commission said its proposal would seek to cut marine litter in half for the ten most prominent items and avoid environmental damage estimated at over $250 billion over the next dozen years.
Jesus Christ y'all are stupid.
The government has so much power over there, its mind blowing.
Look in the mirror you fat cunt.
Wow, trying to reduce pollution is soooo bad.
fixed
It's about time.
#SaveTheWhales
Not even close to the same thing, Nigel.
You guys are cucked. BIG TIME.
No ban on plastic bottles then?
They should mandate the use of biodegradable plastics, not ban them outright.
Like plastic bags in the U.S.
>Making companies produce products that won't fuck the environment up is a bad thing
>The European Commission said its proposal would seek to cut marine litter in half for the ten most prominent items...
But changing what it is causing it wont change the level of litter.
Banning plastic cotton buds, straws, stirs and balloon sticks wil just create litter of wooden cotton buds, straws, stirs and balloon sticks. It wont actually reduce anything...
Why don't they actually pitch in and help remove the three floating plastic islands of garbage in the oceans there is today?
A combined effort between countries wouldn't hurt, considering all the bullshit things our tax dollars go towards now as it is.
better arrest them for disagreeing with your government.
It's always funny when Jow Forums shits on the EU because it's literally how the Nazi empire would have to survive in 2018.
>that won't fuck the environment
planets been here 10 bil yrs, us a few hundred thousand...its doing just fine.
>it's literally how the Nazi empire would have to survive in 2018
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>its doing just fine.
not really
single-use plastic bottles with no refundable deposit are on that list, too. And I like it.
it sure is. what did humans do to cause the ice age? the melting of the ice age theory?
yea, nothing, shit happens on planets.
#dealwithit
>retarded greens make retarded proposal
>prospective projected tabling may '19
Why are we acting like shit is happening? It's just a few politicians talking bullshit for the sake of making the news.
UK you are fucking retarded per usual.
> being this brainwashed
pathetic
There is literally nothing wrong with this. Environmental regulations are the one thing the EU does right.
There's no reason to use plastic straws when we have biodegradable alternatives that are just a few cents more expensive for a pack of 100.
Doesn't even need to be a few cents more expensive. India is facing the same problem manifold thanks to being a fuckhuge country, street vendors for fast food are literally everywhere. There's some entrepreneur who came up with a recipe for edible cutlery and plates which can compete with the price of plastic shit and ironically she has a really hard time to make the product popular because of muh habits.
Soo.... what's fucking wrong with edible plates for single-use? Some places here use them, and if you don't want to eat them you can just throw them away without shitting up our habitat any further. Goddamn, fuck those lobbyists.
imagine being this much of a sheep
I think you have bigger problems than some fucking straws
imagine being this much of a burger...