
Other plastics, such as beverage bottles, will have to be collected separately and recycled at a rate of 90% by 2025. Member states will draft national plans to encourage the use of products suitable for multiple use, as well as re-using and recycling.

This includes single-use burger boxes, sandwich boxes or food containers for fruits, vegetables, desserts or ice creams.

The consumption of several other items, for which no alternative exists, will have to be reduced by member states by least 25% by 2025. National reduction targets for other non-banned plastics MEPs added to this list of plastics banned from the EU market from 2021: products made of oxo-degradable plastics, such as bags or packaging and fast-food containers made of expanded polystyrene.

These products, which make up over 70% of marine litter, will be banned from the EU market from 2021, under draft plans approved by Parliament.
