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The bill against waste was passed at first reading this Thursday in the National Assembly. Among the measures proposed, that relating to the reuse of plastic bottles with the implementation of a deposit. A measure, however, postponed to 2023 by the government.
The objective of the bill is to combat waste by tracing the outlines of legislation promoting the conditions for a sustainable circular economy. The government wants to make the re-use of plastic bottles a flagship measure of the anti-waste bill.
Postponed to 2023
As in several European countries, the French would have paid a "deposit" on their bottles and then recovered a few cents from the euro by bringing them back into dedicated machines. The aim of this system is to reach the European targets for the collection rate of 77% of plastic bottles in 2025 and 90% in 2029, when France levels off at less than 60%.
“ On the issue of the deposit for re-use, we know that 90% of French people are in favor of this device and who are very ready to participate. We put it back to maybe 2023. Reuse means that we recover the objects, that we clean them and that we use them again. We can do this in some cases with plastic objects that can be cleaned and reused, ”explains Isabelle Autissier, president of the NGO WWF .
The government resolved to compromise with waste professionals and local communities standing up against this measure, and finally left them until 2023 to try to reach collection targets. Environmental organizations are disappointed with this report. “ I often go to Norway, I see that all the supermarkets are equipped with some sort of big boxes in which people put their plastic bottles, and they receive a small receipt receipt. They earn a little bit of money. There are cities which have set up a system: when you hand over 10 plastic bottles, for example, you have a free metro ticket ”, notes the president of WWF.
100% recycled plastic by 2025
The text embeds in the law a target of 100% recycled plastic by January 1, 2025. It aims to ban the marketing of single-use plastic packaging by 2040, and aims to reduce it by 50% by 2030 the number of single-use plastic bottles sold.
" We think that the account is absolutely not there. When I see that the release of single-use plastic packaging, it is the resource that lasts only a few seconds and that pollutes our seas and lands for hundreds of years, is pushed back to 2040, I see that n "has absolutely not taken the measure of the emergency both for nature and for men in terms of public health ", regrets Isabelle Autissier.
The anti-waste law also prohibits plastic or single-use containers for meals served on site in fast-food restaurants, at the latest on January 1, 2023. Also, plastic for toys offered with children's menus is over. Parliamentary review of the bill is expected to continue in early 2020.