This new law has (almost) gone unnoticed: all your bottles will change from today

From July 3, 2024, the packaging of drinks in plastic bottles will change significantly for all distributor brands. We explain this new obligation which aims to safeguard our environment.

Subtle, but not trivial! From this Wednesday, all drinks delivered in plastic bottles will have to attach caps. If the rule is already applied for a wide range of water bottles, most often for small formats, it is becoming generalized, reporting Capital.

Attach the caps

From today, it is obligatory to attach the caps of plastic bottles so that, once unscrewed, they cannot be lost in nature. This obligation, straight from Brussels, aims to preserve the environment by facilitating the recycling of this polluting packaging.

The directive was passed in June 2019 and published in 2020. Four years later, the rule will have to apply to all distributors who sell drinks in the public sector. European Union.

This concerns bottles containing up to three liters of drink. For the director of the Non-Alcoholic Beverages Union (SBSA), Inès Boulant, quoted by our colleagues: "Consumers, aware of the need to fight against waste wild, will get used to it very quickly."

Dangerous for wildlife

According to France Info, plastic bottle caps represent 10% of waste< /strong> found on the beaches in Marseille. A risk for the fauna of the Mediterranean basin, recalls WAO researcher Gaëlle Darmon: "This waste is smaller and has a greater risk of being ingested ."