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In the EU one of the first things they came after was mini shampoo bottles in hotels

What if EU goes after them first?

@infiniteErgodicity there have been single use plastic bans in the EU from 2021, and the latest april 2024

By ban do you mean complete ban? And intermediate steps like increase pricing or cannot give out freely does not count?

Increasing prices or mandatory charges wouldn't count, prohibiting distribution (free or not) would count.

@zyc a proposal to ban trawling in Sweden https://europe.oceana.org/press-releases/sweden-sets-an-example-for-eu-countries-with-first-steps-to-ban-bottom-trawling-in-marine-protected-areas/

@zyc Not sure how this is related? Oh, I see someone added fishing nets. The net ban doesn't seem to be about microplastics.

@WilliamGunn I see; it would have to be banned due to the reason of microplastics? What if it is a sub-reason (if mentioned in articles for example formally?)

@WilliamGunn In the US? what if many get targetted at the same time? must it be a federal ban? Could you remove the manual (red) "Other" because the grey automatic Other is better and they're duplicates?

by "remove" I mean rename it to something like [cancelled option] because options in a linked multiple choice market cannot be removed or resolved early, once created

I forget they include other automatically. Not sure how best to handle the situation where several are targeted at once, but my experience has been that they tend to be targeted to a specific thing. I'll go with whatever the common name of the bill is, like "single-use cup ban", even if multiple things are actually included. Feel free to add other options for broader categories.

@WilliamGunn also to follow up - this is world wide right?

@zyc This was one of my first questions and isn't as well-specified as I would have liked, but I was thinking US and EU due to the impracticality of covering the whole world, plus less stable governments can do weird things.

@WilliamGunn Looks like most of the activity was on single-use plastics and microbeads in cosmetics, neither of which were included in the list. Overall, this wasn't a very well-specific question and I could N/A the whole thing, but I think resolving to "Other" is justified,