Fruits and vegetables are still on sale packed in plastic Individually, although it has been banned since the approval of the Royal Packaging Ordinance, Greenpeace, which launched a campaign to detect “illegal plastic,” has condemned it.
The Royal Decree on Containers came into effect on 1 January and No more plastic-packaged fruit and vegetable sales in shops larger than 300 square metershowever, the NGO reports that fruit and vegetables continue to be sold in film and plastic trays.
in the campaign It asks citizens to photograph batches of vegetables and fruits that weigh less than 1.5 kilograms wrapped in plastic. and report to the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Struggle for enforcement of the law.
Julio Barea, the person in charge of Greenpeace’s waste campaign, urged the Government to take the problem seriously and force it to comply with the law requiring the removal of plastic from fruits and vegetables. The regulation also obliges food retailers to offer wholesale fresh fruit and vegetables sold as a whole.To encourage the wholesale of foods, especially in cases where the packaging does not provide any added value to the product, and to allocate at least 20 places to businesses with an area of 400 square meters or more. Percentage of sales space to offer primary unpackaged products, including sale through bulk or reusable packaging.
“It seems that the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food does not like to make people forget what happened. plasticorro polluting: this ministry should have already prepared a definitive list of fruits and vegetables exempted from the law, but it still hasn’t released this list, so in the meantime, industries are holding on to the burning nails; If they say a coconut needs to be laminated, it’s on that list and it’s laminated. To this day we can continue to see these products being sold and presented in such an unsustainable manner, awaiting this final list that never came from the Ministry. Sometimes under the label of biodegradable, biocompostable plastics… In short, the joke of the plastic businessthat they will do everything possible to prevent plasticization of the fruits and vegetables you consume,” says Greenpeace.
The challenge the NGO proposes to the citizens, photograph fruit and vegetables wrapped in plastic Who weighs less than 1.5 kg in supermarkets and retail stores larger than 300 square meters and shares images with the hashtag ‘#Plasticoilegal’ on social networks and mentions supermarket and Greenpeace Spain.
Finally, the organization recommends that consumers choose fruit and vegetables in bulk and use reusable bags.
HOW AND WHERE TO NOTIFY:
1. TAKE PHOTOS: The photos must be taken in supermarkets and stores larger than 300 m2 and must show whole fruits and vegetables that come in plastic packaging weighing less than 1.5 kg.
2. SHARE THE PHOTO ON SOCIAL NETWORKS: Use the hashtag #illegal plastic and mentions two relevant ministries, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ecological Transition:
INSTAGRAM: @gobmap And @miteco.gov
TWITTER: @mapagob and @mitecogob
More about the campaign: https://es.greenpeace.org/es/noticias/ayudanos-a-frenar-el-plasticoilegal-en-la-fruta-del-super/
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