EU reaches deal to reduce plastic waste from packaging
March 5 (Reuters) -The EU reached a deal on Monday evening to ban the plastic wrapping of fruit and vegetables in supermarkets, mini packages of ketchup in restaurants and tiny shampoo bottles in hotels in a drive to cut waste from packaging.
Under the deal, a range of "single use plastic packaging formats", including the use of shrink-wrap for suitcases in airports, would be banned from 2030.
Negotiators of the EU countries and the European Parliament also set a target of at least 10% for the use of reusable packaging for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages by the end of the decade and agreed to ban "forever chemicals" from food packaging.
The agreement also sets packaging reduction targets, from 5% by 2030 to 15% by 2040, and requires EU countries in particular to reduce the amount of plastic packaging waste.
Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Kim Coghill
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