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EU to propose plastic-bag tax as China curtails waste imports
The union seeks to reduce the total volume of plastic in the environment
(Bloomberg) The European Union plans to propose a tax on plastic bags and packaging to help fill a budget gap and “in the interest of the world’s oceans,” the bloc’s budget chief said.
“What we wish to do is reduce the total volume of plastic in the environment,” EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in Brussels on Wednesday.
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