Ocean talks with Virginijus Sinkevičius, the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries about single-use plastics, changing individual behaviours, and the importance of businesses being on board.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 I think we all share responsibility for the city that we all love living in and
00:05 how its city looks because you know this canal is part of city space.
00:12 We're all responsible for the planet that we live so I think first of all it
00:17 all starts of course from our behavior as an individual but also from the
00:23 policies and business initiatives. I think we are all in this game together
00:27 and we can top up and and if we you know have this kind of willingness to truly
00:34 you know get rid of unnecessary packaging, collect it better, recycle it
00:39 better, reuse more, we should do with good policies with people willingness to
00:45 to act and of course businesses being on board. We see improvement but we also see
00:52 that plastic packaging is increasing so we see that member states did relatively
00:57 good job with with recycling but it's not enough. We need a better
01:01 implementation of the ban on single-use plastics and some member states and also
01:06 use C for additional single-use packaging which is also absolutely
01:12 useless for people to get rid of it and then you know we would enjoy more
01:18 kayaking than picking up trash at the end of the day.
01:22 (upbeat music)
01:25 (upbeat music)