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Why the government and Confindustria crush the EU directive on plastics

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Why the government and Confindustria crush the EU directive on plastics

Giorgetti: according to the EU directive on plastic risk of failures, favor the green but transition does not cause "deaths and injuries". This is the position of the Minister of Economic Development, Giorgetti (Lega). Facts and comments on the Sup (Single Use Plastic) Directive

Giorgetti: by EU directive on plastic risk of bankruptcy; favor the green, but transition does not face "deaths and injuries". This is the position of the Minister of Economic Development, Giancarlo Giorgetti (Lega). The reference is to the European SUP (Single Use Plastic) directive which prohibits single-use plastics from 3 July (States must adapt even if in a not completely binding way, Il Sole 24 Ore stressed today).

THE GOVERNMENT'S POSITION ON THE SUP DIRECTIVE ON PLASTICS

We need "a deeper reflection on the ecological transition", a central theme in the action of the Draghi government. "Environmental awareness, a shareable project and objective to be pursued, cannot ignore the consequences of an ideological approach that penalizes Italian industries, leaving" dead and wounded "on the ground in terms of business failures and unemployment". This is, in summary, what Minister Giorgetti underlined during the meeting at the Mise with and the deputy of the CDU, Marian Wendt.

THE CRITICS OF THE MINISTER CINGOLANI

Another minister also stigmatized the evolution of legislation in Europe on the issue. The European directive on single use plastic (SUP, Single Use Plastic), whose guidelines were approved yesterday by the Commission, “is an absurd directive, for which only recycled plastic is good. This cannot be good for us, ”Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani told a PwC webinar on the“ green revolution ”this morning. “Europe has given a very strange definition of plastic, only recyclable – explained the minister -. All the others, even if they are biodegradable or with additives of something, are not good "

WHAT EUROPE IS DOING

“But at the same time – the minister said – the EU is financing large European projects to develop biodegradable plastics. Even at the continental level, there are conflicting signals, which need to be clarified. Our scientific community has a worldwide leadership on the development of biodegradable materials, but at the moment they are not usable by industry, because there is a new and absurd European directive ”.

THE ANALYSIS OF THE SUN 24 HOURS

The EU Commission has issued guidelines for applying the anti-plastic directive to be implemented by 3/7. The Italian industry is alarmed because it is a leader in Europe in producing these objects, made of plastic but also of polythene paper and biodegradable plastic, Il Sole 24 ore , the Confindustria daily newspaper, commented today.

THE PROTEST OF BONOMI (CONFINDUSTRIA)

“The EU guidelines on the SUP Directive effectively shut down an entire industrial sector. I do not see a decisive and cohesive reaction from politics, trade unions, businesses. It doesn't seem to care about the future of workers in the packaging sector, Italian excellence in the world! #The Courage of the Future ". The president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, wrote it on Twitter.

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ANSA LAUNCH ON MAY 31, 2021:

Start in just over a month to reduce the consumption of paper cups and cups even if they only have a layer of plastic: this is the indication given by the European Commission in the guidelines on disposable plastic regulations adopted on Monday 31 in view of the application of the directive on single-use plastics by the Member States starting from 3 July next.

From this date, the banning of products such as cotton buds, cutlery, plates, straws, stirrers, sticks for balloons, cups, polystyrene food and drink containers and all products in oxo-degradable plastic will start. On paper cups with a plastic layer, the European standard introduces the obligation to reduce consumption.

On May 27, the Minister for Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti had indicated that for Italy "one could think of placing a reservation on the entry into force" of the directive, which "also concerns sectors such as paper that objectively do not seem to me as negative from an environmental point of view as that of plastic ". The minister had hoped that "a rethinking and a different timing in the exit from the production of products such as glasses and paper plates" should be "somehow taken into consideration".

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/perche-governo-e-confindustria-stritolano-la-direttiva-ue-sulle-plastiche/ on Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:32:07 +0000.