What’s with these new lids? It’s the EU’s next step to cut down on single-use plastics

 

REMEMBER PLASTIC STRAWS? Well wave goodbye to ‘untethered caps’ as the same EU law that made it so we had to use paper straws is now coming after our lids.

The EU Directive on single-use plastics encourages citizens to cut down and properly dispose of plastic materials. In 2019, the first enforcement of this directive came in when the Government decided State bodies would no longer purchase single-use plastic.

As well as cutting down on their use, the directive, adopted in 2019 and lay out guidelines and timelines to member states to adopt and create new laws, aims to change how plastic products are designed.

In the case of the plastic caps, which according to the EU are discarded on “most of the beaches in the Union”, this meant making it so that you must dispose of the bottle and the cap together.