This is really a matter of willingness. Last time I checked my country (Netherlands) talked big but did little. More countries are like this, especially if the Russia payrolled right wing trolls got a foot hold.
They're not, everything they do is calculated and PR driven. If they disagree openly on Twitter like this, it's with the purpose to generate publicity to get the audience where they can shill their next scam.
Meh, I've met plenty of nice French people. I've had one French asshole as a coworker, but the other French coworkers agreed he was an asshole. Though honestly I'm Dutch, and the official motto here is "France is a great country except for the French!".
Researchers in UC San Diego’s Department of Ecology...
...The biodegradable plastic included sustainable material developed in UC San Diego laboratories and sold by the university spinoff company Algenesis.
I'd like to see the reproductability of this one. Another thing is they only compared PU, one of the nastiest plastics which should be banned. I think most plastics in use today are packaging plastics like PE, PP, PET, PS. Not that I like those ones better, we could do without a lot of the plastics we have today, and we don't even need replacement in a lot of cases.
Like I said in another thread, this has been the case in the Netherlands for at least since the eighties (€4,32 an hour if you're 15, still below €10 if you're 19) . And employers abuse the shit out of it, hiring young people as cheap labour and trying to get rid of them before they turn 21.
This is actually a good tip! An uncle of mine always used scalpels for wood carving.