Plastic bottles, in France the proposal to ban the smaller ones

A bill is under discussion in France to ban plastic bottles smaller than 50 centilitres.

The plastic bottles, as we know, represent a huge problem from both the point of view environmental That climate.In the first case because, despite the efforts of recent decades, very many they are not recycled nor thrown into the unsorted rubbish of the world.On the contrary, they are abandoned everywhere, even in risk areas and in seas around the world.Thus arriving to contaminate the fauna and even to enter the food chain, ending up on our plates in the form of microplastic.For this reason a French deputy, Pierre Cazeneuve, decided to file a bill to ban at least the “most absurd” portion of the problem.That is, plastic bottles smaller than 50 centilitres.

French MP Cazeneuve:“It's absurd that 17 centiliter bottles exist”

Although in fact, when we talk about water or other types of drinks in disposable packaging, we often think of cartons of six bottles of one or a half litres, smaller sizes are now increasingly popular.From 33 centilitres, but also 25 and even 17.“These are formats that I consider totally absurd, and which they don't have no sense from an environmental point of view, since it concerns 20-25 grams of plastic for only three or four sips of water", the parliamentarian declared to the Tf1 broadcaster.

Consequently, the bill - which was filed on 14 October - was welcomed with great favor by environmental associations, in particular by No plastic in my sea, That in a message published on the social network X added:“We remember that every year they are put on the market in France 15 billion plastic bottles, much of which is useless."

In France 15 billion plastic bottles a year

For now the industrial sector he was cautious and did not react to Cazeneuve's proposal.The latter, in fact, focuses precisely on the most aberrant part of the issue, and therefore it is not excluded that the producers of drinks in plastic bottles could reflect on the possibility of not attacking a regulation which, in any case, would in fact save the bulk of theirs business.