Science & Planet There is a ban in the European Union on plastic disposable articles such as straws, cutlery, cups, plates, plastic cotton swabs, and stirrers. Negotiators of the EU-countries are there in the morning agreed. By the most polluting plastics from 2021 to ban, the EU intends the huge plasticberg to reduce.

The European Commission came in may with a proposal to the battle with wegwerpplastic. Together cause those products, after all, about 70 percent of the pollution in the sea, she said. The European Parliament voted there this fall. the

The ban will probably be in about two years. The countries should use the results of the negotiations yet to officially ratify.