KEY POINTS:
Plastic forks, disposable nappies, draughty houses - if it hurts the environment, make it cost more. That's the message France's Government wants to send with a raft of proposed new taxes.
France's ecology minister said yesterday the Government was considering a "picnic tax" on disposable dishes.
Speaking on Europe-1 radio, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet said: "We could make it so that in all public maternity wards, you would be taught to use washable [nappies]."
