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EU affairs ministers rubber-stamp new ban on plastics
By EUobserver
EU affairs ministers meeting on Tuesday in the Council of the EU adopted new rules that ban the use of plastics in certain throw-away items. The new directive will require producers of single-use products like straws, cutlery, and balloon sticks to use other material than plastic, which often ends up in the ocean, harming marine life. The new rules had already been agreed by EU ambassadors in January.