Promote the use of new organic materials to replace plastic

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Atjaunināšanas datums: 07/04/2019 |

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The European Citizens are already aware of the amount of plastics waste that are not well separated and recycled. Then, why not promoting the new organic materials to replace plastic in both industry and commerce?

It should exist a EU policy to support this replacement in the near future in order to end the use of petrol derivatives materials like plastic. It is already happening with the fuel used in transport, so why not promoting it with the plastic materials and taking it further than just in the bags industry.

So, we must act to prevent having more waist that causes so much damage to the environment and increase the community and industry responsible's awareness of the solutions for this problem. Starting by promoting this new organic materials (like the corn starch based ones) to replace the many plastic utils in the home, food market, etc.

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Forum Team | 17/04/2019

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Inactive user | 01/05/2021

I think that the European Parliament had already banned some types of plastics. Moreover, in some countries the government already approved regulations to discourage or ban the use of plastic bags.

If the objective if to replace plastic by biodegradable materials, one possibility is to pass new taxes to products made from plastic and use the resulting payments to incentivize the use of biodegradable materials. An alternative is to ban the use of plastic, but I think that a general restriction over all products is only possible in the medium to long term.

The problem is to define the detail of such measures. Which companies will pay the new taxation? (plastic producers? the final user? Companies that make products using plastic as input?) Is it realistic to assume that in the short-term we can replace plastic by other materials in all products? Should the incentives to new material include I+D projects?

I do think that it makes sense to internalize negative externalities. But if that implies an extended taxation, the resulting payments should be used to solve those externalities.