‘Environmental nonsense’: Here’s why France wants to ban bottled water

France has various schemes in place to lessen plastic usage, but the proposed bill would go further still.

A French politician has called for a ban on small plastic water bottles, calling them “completely absurd” and “environmental nonsense”.

Pierre Cazeneuve, who belongs to President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, submitted a proposed law this week which could see the end of water bottles smaller than 50cl.

Expanding his “absurd” comment, Cazeneuve said that the diminutive bottles – which encompass the 33, 25 and 17cl sizes – “contain 20-25 grams of plastic for just three or four sips of water”. He has not included larger bottles in his potential ban – yet.

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