{"id":12844,"date":"2020-06-03T07:57:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=12844"},"modified":"2020-06-02T21:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:00:44","slug":"spain-plans-levy-on-non-recyclable-plastic-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/environmental-news-en\/spain-plans-levy-on-non-recyclable-plastic-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain plans levy on non-recyclable plastic packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Spain aims to collect more than 700 million euros ($810 million) a year with a proposed new tax on non-recyclable plastic packaging, Spanish energy and environment minister Teresa Ribera said on Tuesday. The new levy, worth 0.45 euros per kilogram of packaging, is contained in a bill proposed by the government to help meet a European Union target of phasing out single-use plastic by 2021. \u201cThis is a indirect tax which will be levied on the manufacturing, import or intra-EU acquisition of the non-reusable plastic packaging used on the Spanish market,\u201d Ribera told a news conference after the weekly cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the most recent year with available data, Spain would have raised 724 million euros from the new tax, she said. The new tax still has a long parliamentary process ahead. The EU intends to ban single-use plastic straws, cutlery and plates by 2021 in an effort to reduce pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed new tax comes as Madrid scrambles to find new sources of revenue to reduce a widening budget deficit caused by fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The government revised its deficit forecast to 10.34% of GDP, up from 1.8% in February.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-spain-tax-plastic\/spain-plans-levy-on-non-recyclable-plastic-packaging-idUSKBN2392A0?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=environmentNews\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain aims to collect more than 700 million euros ($810 million) a year with a proposed new tax on non-recyclable plastic packaging, Spanish energy and&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[3352,2258,104,2674],"class_list":["post-12844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","tag-non-recyclable","tag-plastic-packaging","tag-spain","tag-tax","wpcat-31-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/spain-379535_1280.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12846,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions\/12846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}