also ahead under-investment and a bad harvest take their toll on cuba's sugar industry deila nation turns to imports for the first time. i'm stephen beers limber lin welcome plastic may be cheap for producers but it's become an environmental menace now the e.u. parliament has voted through a ban on a range of single use plastic products environmentalist say it can't come soon enough. the mountain of waste on land and waterways and seas continues to grow the e.u. currently recycles only a quarter of the twenty five million tons of plastic waste it produces annually now european lawmakers say urgent action is needed to tackle the problem you need yeah eight billion tons of plastic produced in less than sixty five years six billion tons of waste the figures speak for themselves more than four billion tons for europe alone all oceans have become dust bins and they are dying on the plastic accounts for more than eighty percent of marine waste and slow decomposition means that traces are often found in marine life as well as the seafood that ends up in supermarkets under the proposal ten single

also ahead under-investment and a bad harvest take their toll on cuba's sugar industry deila nation turns to imports for the first time. i'm stephen beardsley in berlin welcome plastic may be cheap for producers but it's become an environmental menace now the e.u. parliament has voted through a ban on a range of single use plastic products environmentalist say it can't come soon enough the mountain of waste on land and waterways and so.