France to ban plastic packaging for fresh produce in new year • FRANCE 24 English

Tomatoes wrapped in plastic fillm auin in plastic netting or these prepacked Peppers will soon be off the shelves in France single-use plastic is still widely used to package fresh fruits and vegetables in France a third of produce is sold this way from large supermarkets to smaller green Grocers but from the

1st of January that will be changing orange plastic a new law aimed at drastically reducing plastic packaging comes into force in France in the new year but just a few days from the deadline fresh food producers say they’re still not ready we don’t have a miracle product

That’s affordable and that we can put into place immediately to completely replace plastic either the material isn’t totally transparent or it breaks more easily or it’s not moisture proof it will remain legal to sell some items in plastic packaging 29 foods are exempt from the rules including early Harvest

Potatoes and carrots mushrooms broccoli leafy salads and berries items considered fragile are also exempt as our packages weighing 1.5 kg or more that’s too many exceptions say environmental campaigners especially if France is to reach its goal of zero single-use plastic by 2040 we’re not moving fast enough we set an almost

20year deadline for only single-use plastic but what about cardboard what about other single-use products the problem is a system of production and consumption that revolves around single use from next week retailers and producers who flout the new French law risk fines of up to €45,000

Plastic packaging for fresh fruits and vegetables will be banned from January 1 in France as the country phases out single-use plastic. Fresh food producers say, however, that they aren’t ready yet as little alternative has been found to replace plastic packaging. Meanwhile, up to 29 foods are exempt from France’s ban on plastic-wrapped produce including berries, brocoli and mushrooms, among others.
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14 comments

  3. What enrages me most, in Ireland but probably everywhere, are pomelos wrapped in plastic, with an additional plastic net around. That's how Chinese economy was boosted – at the cost to everyone's environment.

  7. Wait until they have to buy/pay more because of spoilage. Whole melons for example because once cut, they oxidize quickly so sellers have to sell them whole… Boxes of fruits because if sold in bulk, those will damage quite easily… There has to be a better but the activists don't care about their consequences. I wonder if we were to visit the average activist, how environmentally unfriendly their homes would be…

  12. You know they are going to go back to using paper which is going the raise the issue with deforestation again. In my opinion banning plastic is just for the short while raise the price of produce in the stores. I wouldn't be surprised if in a year people are complaining about how prices increased for these items and trying to attribute it to something else.

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