We are a deeply unserious country with a weak and ineffectual Prime Minister:
Single-use sachets for condiments such as ketchup, mayonnaise and soy sauce will no longer be allowed for dine-in customers at restaurants across the EU from Aug. 12 under new packaging waste rules aimed at reducing plastic pollution. The measure is part of the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), which entered into force in February 2025 and will begin applying across member states this summer.
It was inevitable - first they came for the little plastic fish, and I didn’t eat sushi, so I did not complain, and….. you know how it goes.
And you may ask why what the EU does should matter to us, and I’d refer you to that weak and ineffectual PM because it shouldn’t matter, given we are no longer in it, but we have an idiot in No 10. And worse, an idiot that wants to take us back into it, so will do everything he can tonight follow their every move. No matter how idiotic.
Under the regulation, restaurants serving customers on-site will be required to replace disposable condiment packets with alternatives such as refillable dispensers, reusable containers or table-service bottles.The European Commission said the rules are designed to reduce packaging waste and encourage a shift toward a more circular economy.
Oh well, at least we will see a return of these, for a quick nostalgia boost!
If we're going back to the Seventies, we might as well look like it!
The condiment sachet restrictions are part of broader EU efforts to curb packaging waste. Beginning in 2030, additional single-use packaging products, including miniature shampoo and soap bottles commonly found in hotels, are also expected to be phased out under the regulation.
I was wondering why hotels no longer provided these, preferring to fix dispensers to the shower walls instead. And I miss the shower caps but as they were plastic, I guess they are verboten in our brave new world too.
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No really, It is nov 6, not Apr 1 - this must be a wind-up (shirley)
"And I miss the shower caps but as they were plastic"
How long before the dispensers with free plastic gloves at diesel pumps are banned?
And smoky-bacon crisps apparently. I wonder why?
And yet people still vote for these idiots
Jaded
The term is overused these days but I can’t help feeling that the Labour government has embarked on a strategy of gaslighting us on an industrial scale; how else to explain a constant stream of public announcements which could have been expressly designed to make us question our collective sanity?
I suppose it has a lot to do with the party’s origins; formed as a means of extracting workers’ rights and more money from a nebulous ‘them’ - ie those in power and the wealthy - to give to the deserving ‘us’, it is fundamentally unsuited to government because it can’t abandon its founding principles even when its members (even Angela Rayner) have clearly become ‘them’; the resulting paradox seems to be too much for their little brains to cope with, hence the surreal nature and startling hypocrisy of recent policy announcements.
Perhaps their aim is to confuse and demoralise us so much that we no longer notice what they are up to or that they haven’t a clue.
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