{"id":17041,"date":"2013-10-01T16:31:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=17041"},"modified":"2013-10-03T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T14:37:39","slug":"european-bioplastics-ban-tax-oil-based-plastic-shopping-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/european-bioplastics-ban-tax-oil-based-plastic-shopping-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"European Bioplastics: Ban or tax oil-based plastic shopping bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p><strong>Berlin, 01 October 2013. European Bioplastics publishes its latest position paper on shopping bags, ahead of the forthcoming European Commission proposal on single use plastic bags announced today by Commissioner Janez Poto\u010dnik. The association recognises that an overall reduction in the consumption of plastic shopping bags will play an important role in increasing resource efficiency and moving Europe towards a more sustainable economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>Therefore, European Bioplastics supports posing a levy or taxation on oil-based plastic shopping bags, or even a banning of bags under the following condition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shopping bags containing at least 50 percent biobased content should generally be exempted from the ban or tax.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In countries where organic waste is recovered and organically recycled, compostable shopping bags compliant to EN 13432 containing at least 50 percent biobased content should be exempted from the ban or tax.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cBioplastic bags will become a symbol of a resource efficient and circular economy\u201d, says Fran\u00e7ois de Bie, Chairman of European Bioplastics.<\/p>\n<p>Plastic shopping bags with a high biobased content ensure a considerably lower carbon footprint than oil-based bags and help to reduce CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions. Compostable plastic shopping bags offer a secondary use as biowaste bags. They help to increase the amount of biowaste collected and improve the quality of compost in countries where organic waste collection is in place.<\/p>\n<p>European Bioplastics\u2019 position paper on shopping bags is available at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.european-bioplastics.org\/EuBP_PositionPaper_Plastic_shopping_bags.pdf\">http:\/\/en.european-bioplastics.org\/EuBP_PositionPaper_Plastic_shopping_bags.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<br \/>\n<\/strong>Head of Communications<br \/>\nKristy-Barbara Lange<br \/>\nTel.: +49 30 28482 356<br \/>\nE-Mail: press@european-bioplastics.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin, 01 October 2013. European Bioplastics publishes its latest position paper on shopping bags, ahead of the forthcoming European Commission proposal on single use plastic bags announced today by Commissioner Janez Poto\u010dnik. The association recognises that an overall reduction in the consumption of plastic shopping bags will play an important role in increasing resource efficiency [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[435,2317],"class_list":["post-17041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-european-bioplastics-ev","supplier-european-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17041"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=17041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}