Rewe and Lidl will stop selling plastic straps by the end of the year Article | goods

Berlin, July 4 (TASR) – German business giants Rewe and Lidl are pulling out all their plastic straps and their similar assortment by the end of the year in about 6,000 stores. Both concerts reported on Wednesday. Kaufland plans to do the same thing by the end of 2019. All cups, plates, cutlery and disposable cottons will disappear from the shelves

Plastic straps are typical disposable items. Consumers use it for up to 20 minutes. Most often, it is the product that most pollutes the beach beaches and enters the seas and other water areas. For example, Rewe will not release 42 million plastic straws after 1965.

Chains will replace them with paper straws, wheat stalks, or steel tubes the following year [19659002] Lidl will reduce the consumption of plastics by 2025 a fifth. It will continue in many years of practice when fruit and vegetables will offer consumers free wooden crates.

German distribution chains begin to comply with the European Commission's decision to restrict certain types of plastic products before the corresponding directive can be published