French green "picnic tax" to hit plastic cutlery

PARIS, Sept 15 (Reuters) - France will tax plastic cutlery to try to encourage consumers to buy more eco-friendly products, and Paris is planning to expand the measure to include several other items, the environment minister said on Monday.

France has already introduced the so-called "bonus-malus" system for cars, under which an extra tax is imposed on the most heavily polluting vehicles while the greenest get a tax break.

Newspaper Le Figaro said the government had ...