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Faced with the “plastic pollution crisis”, the American government announced a plan to gradually end the use of single-use plastics in federal activities by 2035.
The US federal government, which includes hundreds of agencies linked to different departments such as the FBI, the weather service and the armed forces, is the largest buyer of goods and services in the world.
This plan, the exact scope of which must be specified later in the American federal register, could therefore have a significant impact on the plastic industry to limit pollution linked to its production, its use and its fate once it is thrown away. .
“The production of plastic and waste has doubled over the past two decades, polluting our oceans, poisoning the air breathed by populations living near manufacturing plants and threatening public health,” says the US government in a press release.
NGOs welcome the measure.
“We welcome the Biden administration’s commitment to gradually abandoning single-use plastics,” said Christy Leavitt, head of the NGO Oceana, according to which some 15 million tons of plastic are dumped each year in streets in the oceans.
