Germany Bans Single-Use Plastic and Styrofoam

Germany is making major strides towards creating a new type of low plastic use economy, trying to practice what shits politicians have been preaching for years, in terms of environmentalism.

The country annonced that it will be implementing a complete ban on the sale of a multitude of single-use and disposable items in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic and polystyrene waste in the environment of not just Germany, but also many other countries, as the German export industry is among the strongest ones in the world.

This includes the likes of plastic straws, polystyrene cups, boxes and containers, all forms of single-use cutlery, plates, and stirring sticks.

German Environmental Minister Schulze said the move was part of an effort to move away from “throw-away culture”, as the only way to truly surpass this problem is to implement behavioral patterns into the society, and create a new, more sustainable culture. The government’s ban will go into effect on July 3, 2021, surely a date to be remembered. The new plan also legislates the closure of eight brown-coal operations, mostly located in economically depressed regions where these industries are still important for the local population, by 2022, as the number of jobs in renewable energy, which already generates 50% of Germany’s power, will continue to increase in those regions.