Since January, several fruits and vegetables could no longer be sold packed under this material.
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Plastic packaging could return to the stalls. The 1 er 2022, a decree prohibiting them around certain fruits and vegetables entered into force. Less than a year later, the Retropedal Council of State. The latter canceled the decree In question Friday, December 9, judging him “illegal” and asking the State to write a new text.
Since January, many unprocessed fresh fruits and vegetables, such as zucchini, peppers, cucumbers, apples, pears or oranges, could no longer be sold under this packaging.
Entredian by manufacturers
The application decree was published in October 2021 and notably fixed plastic packaging tolerances until 2026 for the most fragile such as red fruits.
It is this progressive calendar which was considered illegal by the Council of State, seized among others by the plastic manufacturers, the highest administrative body judging that the State had exceeded the mandate which had been set to it in The framework of the law relating to the fight against waste and the circular economy.