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UK Government announces commitment to a global treaty to fight plastic pollution
The UK Government has today (18 November) made a landmark announcement to support a global agreement to tackle plastic pollution
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The UK Government has today (18 November) made a landmark announcement to support a global agreement to tackle plastic pollution
Today (1 October), a UK-wide ban on plastic straws, cotton buds and stirrers came into effect
Ahead of tomorrow’s (Wednesday’s) UN biodiversity summit, hosted online from New York, many world leaders have signed up to promise to halt the destruction of nature on Earth
The supermarket chain Morrisons has announced it is starting trials with a view to replacing plastic ‘bags for life’ with strong paper bags
Humans produce a staggering 275 million tonnes of plastic waste a year and very little of it is recycled – mostly, it ends up in the environment, polluting land and sea while having a terrible impact on our natural world. Could the solution be a new global treaty to join forces and fight it together? […]
A new plan unveiled by the European Commission to curb plastic pollution is a step in the right direction but will only be effective if it is strongly implemented