{"id":5752,"date":"2023-03-16T14:03:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethiopiaccm.org\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2023-05-09T15:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:35:25","slug":"grunen-chairman-habeck-calls-for-plastic-tax-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethiopiaccm.org\/grunen-chairman-habeck-calls-for-plastic-tax-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Grunen chairman habeck calls for plastic tax on disposable products"},"content":{"rendered":"
Grunen chairman robert habeck wants to make disposable plastic products more expensive via a new tax.<\/p>\n
"We need an EU-wide plastic tax on throwaway products," he said, he told the "welt (monday). "This is how a steering effect can be achieved." The environment minister from keel also wants to turn the tax screw in another area in order to "get out of the throw-away plastic society to come.<\/p>\n
It can not be "that petroleum, which is used, for example, for the production of plastics, is given preferential tax treatment, unlike oil for fuel". The state pays for the flood of plastic with at least 780 million euros annually, said habeck, referring to a study by the forum okologisch-soziale marktwirtschaft (fos) (forum for ecological and social market economy). "This plastic subsidy should be abolished."<\/p>\n
Unpackaged store in bamberg: this store protects the environment<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for the federal environment ministry on monday referred to the new packaging law, which is to come into force in 2019 and ensure more recycling and more environmentally friendly packaging in germany. EU commissioner gunther oettinger (CDU) had also proposed a plastic tax.<\/p>\n