Starting from 2021, the EU will completely ban disposable plastics. The banned items include plastic products such as dinner plates, tableware, straws, and cotton swab shafts.

In this banned list, it is important to note that oxidative decomposable plastics are also included. The European Union issued a warning against oxidative decomposable plastics as early as 2018, believing that such plastics are only traditional plastic materials added with artificial additives to allow plastics It is fragmented into smaller molecules, but still exists in the environment, and the current technology cannot completely separate the oxidative decomposable plastic from the general plastic, which may affect the recycling operation.