A small selection of flowers wild and cultivated
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I was having lunch with a friend and colleague at a highly rated local tavola calda. I expressed some sadness that although the food was wonderful, each of us was generating a small mountain of waste plastic -- plates, cutlery, cups, everything. My friend informed me that in 2019 the EU had implemented a directive to reduce single-use plastics, specifically to protect the environment.
But in front of use were our two small mountains. How come?
Ah, she told me, in Italy, many packages of plastic plates etc. are labelled saying they can be re-used. Problem solved.
I wonder how many are actually washed and re-used, or even re-used dirty. And do other EU countries crawl through the same loophole?
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