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> this is as irrational, as baning leaded fuel or asbestos

It's apples to oranges. Nobody really needs leaded fuel or asbestos.

But single-use plastics has a lot of reasonable applications, like ones I gave above: multi-use things which are effectively single-use.

> You claim this to be naive, yet this is the very proposal currently approved by 560 members of the EU parliament, in the new European Union Single-Use Plastics Directive 2019/904

If MP were really smart people, we would already colonized Mars and other planets. They are just regular dudes who are pushed by voters, by industry and so on.

> However, make no mistake, a ban is coming it is not a question of if but of when

I'm certain of that. And that ban will do more harm then good. Like for example, people might start bying expensive multi-use things for single-use applications.



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