France delays its plan to ban single-use plastic cups from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2030 due to questions about technical feasibility, with a new review scheduled for 2028.

A 12-month stock clearance window for cups containing plastic will be allowed after the 2030 deadline, extended from the previous six months.

An official decree sets a 2028 review to assess progress on alternatives, followed by a 12-month stock clearance period before the ban takes effect in 2030.

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Compliance effort continues among fast-foods and independents, with forthcoming details and full information to be announced later.

The decision involves the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Ministry of Economy and Finance and was published in the Journal officiel.

Environmental campaigners have highlighted the impact of single-use plastics on rivers and oceans, contributing to regulatory action and gradual restrictions over the past decade.

DGCCRF reported ongoing non-compliance and misleading 'plastic-free' claims in 2023, underscoring enforcement hurdles.

The timing shift reflects ongoing feasibility and enforcement concerns while pursuing continued reductions in plastic waste.

The government had previously pushed bans on plastics to reduce river and ocean pollution, but practical feasibility remains a central obstacle.

France has a history of gradually banning single-use plastics, with a 2020 law aiming to eliminate all such plastics by 2040 and earlier bans on plastic bags in 2022.

DGCCRF data through late 2024 indicated about one in five companies infringed the disposable plastic ban, including misleading 'plastic-free' marketing and other violations.