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Why plastic water bottle sales are increasing in France

Sales increased by 3.3% in 2025, based on a new study

Plastic in bottled water: these brands identified in France as least affected

A new consumer study claims four popular brands offer the safest water to drink

Doorstep milk deliveries now available in 17 French cities

A growing start-up is trying to help consumers break their single-use plastic bottle habit

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Claim money back at French supermarkets by recycling plastic bottles

A startup hopes to improve PET recycling rates but some politicians oppose the venture

Artist’s huge tap work on show in Paris to highlight plastic waste

The Canadian behind the work hopes to make people aware of the issue of single-use plastics in his latest project, which is on displaying for the public for the first time

French firm finds way to recycle single-use masks

A start-up company claims it has developed a system to recycle single-use plastic-fibre surgical masks.

Fight plastic waste: Refill water bottles at French store

Shoppers in France can now buy self-service filtered water in bulk, as more consumers are choosing to buy their food using their own reusable containers, in a bid to cut down on plastic packaging and waste.

New laws and changes in France: July 2020

From litter and drug use fines to the temporary unemployment scheme, here are the new laws and changes to note this month.

Plastic-eating enzyme ‘revolutionises recycling’

A French company whose plastic-eating enzyme technology could revolutionise recycling is due to have a plant up and running by next year.

France gets ‘illegal waste’ sent back from Malaysia

France is one of four developed nations set to have its allegedly illegal plastic waste “sent back” on some of the 150 shipping containers ordered by Malaysia this week.

French MPs back plan to ban single-use plastic by 2040

... but critics argue the measures should be enforced much earlier

French trainers made of sea-dumped plastic

Two friends, shocked at the amount of plastic dumped in the Mediterranean off Marseille, have set up a business – turning bottles into trainers.

Green news in France: October 2019

A monthly update on environmental events and occurrences in France: water bottles, autoroute littering, anti-pollution protests and rye straws innovation

Plastic waste on way back to France

Tonnes of plastic waste are being sent back to France after Malaysia, the world’s biggest importer, closed its doors.

French Pyrenees polluted by high microplastic levels

A remote area of the French Pyrenees was regularly polluted by high levels of microplastic particles, showing that plastic waste can be spread over large distances by rain, wind and snow, a study found.

Recycled sea plastic made into floor tiles and a boat

After seeing tonnes of plastic littering a beach in Senegal, a young entrepreneur has started a business turning the waste into flooring tiles and panels, creating jobs in both France and Senegal.

Plastic-powered boat can save oceans from plastic

Every minute 18 tonnes of plastic enter the world’s oceans and multiple studies show 99% of it sinks to the ocean floor to kill marine life.

France plans single-use plastic ban as movement grows

French MP and environmental activist Nicolas Hulot is planning to ban dozens of single-use plastic objects in France by 2025, in a bid to replace them with biodegradable alternatives.

Tourists in France 'swimming in a plastic soup'

Figures show French fail to recycle more than half the 25million plastic bottles they use every day, as WWF France releases report that says tourists at the Mediterranean are swimming in a 'plastic soup'

Floating ‘sea bins’ come to France’s ocean ports

Floating sea “rubbish bins” that suck up rubbish in the ocean and improve seawater quality are to be adopted across the country after being successfully tested in the Hérault (Occitanie).

Plastic Attack excess plastic campaign comes to Paris

A campaign against excess plastic packaging in supermarkets dubbed “operation Plastic Attack”, with the social media hashtag #RidiculousPackaging, is to launch in Paris.

Government seeks return to old ‘consigne’ recycling

The government is proposing a return to the “consigne” deposit recycling system, in which shoppers bring their empty bottles back to the shop to recycle them in exchange for small sums of cash.

Recycling bins turn your plastic bottles into cash

Only one in two plastic bottles is recycled in France but the recycling firm Réco-France aims to boost this with new-style recycling bins that give cash vouchers in return for bottles.

Plastic bottles

Why plastic water bottle sales are increasing in France

Plastic in bottled water: these brands identified in France as least affected

Doorstep milk deliveries now available in 17 French cities

Claim money back at French supermarkets by recycling plastic bottles

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New direct ferry to link northern France and Ireland from June

1,700 confined on cruise ship in Bordeaux amidst gastroenteritis fears

First aircraft for direct Sydney-London route exits Toulouse factory

Cold spell and gales of up to 100km/h to cover France this weekend