Environmentalists have long campaigned against single-use plastics as pollution worsens globally while President Emmanuel Macron has backed the move defending a"pragmatic" approach.
"We were never consulted," complained Laurent Grandin, head of the fruit and vegetable sector's Interfel association. Big supermarket group Casino said it will now sell tomatoes in cardboard packaging and provide customers with paper or cellulose bags.
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