Plastic: Why Does France Pay €1.6 Billion in Penalties Each Year to Europe?

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In presenting the outline of its plan to combat plastic pollution, Agnès Pannier-Runacher recalled that France is the bad student in Europe. For the recycling of plastic, the country is 26th out of the 27 states in the European Union, and therefore has to pay heavy penalties. With this plan, the minister of ecological transition aims in particular to improve the sorting in the yellow bin, but also the recycling of products. - Plastic: why France…

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Europe has set a 50% plastic recycling target in 2025 and 55% in 2030, but "France is currently only 26% and this rate is progressing too slowly" (+1% on average every year), explained the Ministry of Ecological Transition by presenting its "Plastic Plan 2025-2030".

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Agnès Pannier-Runacher announces the launch of the development of the Plastic Plan 2025-2030. Objective: to reduce the penalty of €1.6 billion paid by France. The recycling order could be on the menu of the discussions.

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Paris - A new plan against plastic pollution has just been presented by the French government on Thursday in order to give impetus to the re-employment and recycling industry. France's delay in meeting European targets costs €1.6 billion per year.

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Each year, France pays Europe more than 1.6 billion euros for the 1.9 million tons of non-recycled plastic packaging. Faced with the delay in European objectives, the government reveals

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With a record €1.6 billion fine imposed by the European Union in 2023, France is paying its mark in the recycling of plastic. Lack of control, insufficient equipment, controversy about the deposit: the construction site is huge.