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The Dutch cabinet wants a European-wide ban on wet wipes which are clogging up sewage system pumps, causing tens of millions of damage each year. The wipes, which are often flushed down the toilet, ...

The European Commission identified wet wipes as one of the 10 single-use plastic items most frequently found on European coastal beaches.

Wet wipes and balloons are the fifth and ninth most commonly found single-use plastic items on European beaches, according to an EU directive referenced by the Spanish government.

Spain is set to ban people from throwing wet wipes down the toilet and deliberately releasing disposable balloons, in a bid to protect its rivers and seas from plastic pollution. The law being ...