Environmentalists urge TourdeFrance to end 'avalanche of plastic'
PARIS – The corporate “caravan” that motors across valleys and mountains ahead of the cyclists competing in the Tour de France has been a crowd-pleaser for decades, but ecologists want organisers to put an end to the avalanche of plastic it generates.
They say that a few years ago it was 18 million, but the environmentalists says the “Tour de Plastic” has to do more. Tour director Christian Prudhomme responded with a letter in the sports daily L’Equipe saying that sponsors now had to pledge to reduce plastic, and that items such as caps and t-shirts were being distributed without plastic wrapping. Lambert said he would meet Prudhomme in September to discuss the 2020 Tour.
Single-use plastic items such as straws, cutlery and cotton buds will be banned in the European Union by 2021.
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