The latest nonsense (which is afflicting the UK too as collateral damage) is the EU requirement for plastic bottle tops to be 'tethered', a typically silly solution to a non-problem, of the sort beloved by Eurocrats. It makes drinking or pouring very inconvenient, while there are virtually zero European bottle tops in the 'famous' North Pacific Gyre (which largely consists of lost fishing gear).
If we were really concerned about pollution from plastic bottles, the UK could now revert to the simple, cheap and effective landfill - banned (or, more precisely, taxed heavily) by the EU, because it's not possible for the low countries (just creates a lake) and there must be a 'level playing field'.
The latest nonsense (which is afflicting the UK too as collateral damage) is the EU requirement for plastic bottle tops to be 'tethered', a typically silly solution to a non-problem, of the sort beloved by Eurocrats. It makes drinking or pouring very inconvenient, while there are virtually zero European bottle tops in the 'famous' North Pacific Gyre (which largely consists of lost fishing gear).
If we were really concerned about pollution from plastic bottles, the UK could now revert to the simple, cheap and effective landfill - banned (or, more precisely, taxed heavily) by the EU, because it's not possible for the low countries (just creates a lake) and there must be a 'level playing field'.