France looking at deposit scheme for plastic bottles and reuse strategy
Emmanuel Macron wants France to catch up on plastic recycling, as the country currently has to pay substantial taxes for any used packaging that ends up as waste, often to be buried or incinerated.
“Explain to people that we can afford to pay €1.5 billion to the EU every year because we are not meeting the commitments we have set ourselves,” president Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday at a circular economy event in Paris.
In place since 2021, the levy is an ‘own resource’ measure that feeds into the EU budget, where member countries have to pay €0.80 for every kilogramme of plastic packaging sold nationwide that is not collected for recycling.
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