The new regulation of the EU plastic limit order: from July 3, all bottle caps must be connected with the bottle body!

Italian "Chinese Street" news

Since last year, the EU has continued to add rules to the plastic limit order, and in about a year, the regulation that was proposed from June 2019 for disposable plastic bottles and bottle caps must be conjoined finally settled, and this provision also appeared in the United Nations 2030 circular economy agenda. Its novel approach has been praised for effectively protecting the environment and reducing the spread of microplastics, but many consumers are not buying it.

First of all, let's take a look at the specific provisions of the law. In our daily life, the cap of a disposable plastic bottle will come out of the bottle with a gentle twist. Sometimes it will accidentally fall down, causing it to be dirty and unusable or forgotten and thrown in a certain corner, which will lead to the failure of the cap to be centrally recycled together with the bottle in the later stage. This is what the EU regulation aims to limit by reducing the spread of microplastics. Therefore, the decree stipulates that from July 3, all disposable drinks and mineral water bottles must have the cap and the bottle cannot be separated from the body, so as to prevent it from being recycled. It is recognized by the European Union as a long-term strategic plan for plastics.

Since last year, there have been many manufacturers began to change the bottle caps of mineral water and beverage bottles, careful street friends should be found in the supermarket when buying, although it is not yet fully popular, but from July 3, all manufacturers will not be able to produce non-connected bottle caps. With the consumption of older products on the market, we should soon be able to find that only one-piece bottle caps are left on the market.

Like many new laws, the one-piece law was met with mixed reviews, with many consumers arguing that the attached cap blocked the mouth and made drinking water difficult. Soon, of course, a new design of foldable bottle caps will appear, which can be folded over the side of the bottle when you need to drink water.

In addition, there will be more complex changes in the production chain of manufacturers, the plastics industry alone in Italy employs thousands of people and has an annual turnover of more than 30 billion euros. In the future, the EU will embark on a path to say goodbye to single-use plastics, which will affect the lives of these people.