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  We must seize this opportunity to build a thriving UK plastics economy

  As we strive to create a more circular economy, we need to rethink the way we tackle plastic pollution. The domino effect of China imposing restrictions in accepting plastic waste undoubtedly created immediate challenges as the world scrambled to find countries ready to open their shores. This is unsustainable and has contributed to disturbing images...

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  Understanding the environmental outcomes of packaging is critical

  Instinctively, reusing tableware would seem better for the environment, in particular helping to reduce our use of carbon. However, this is often not the case as new scientific data has revealed. Food packaging is essential to modern food systems. It was confirmed by the response of governments and by the European Environment Agency which recently...

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  The reasons why glass is the sustainable packaging option

  Glass is an easily and endlessly recyclable material that has been used in packaging for thousands of years. Now the glass industry wants to move towards a carbon neutral production process. There’s a reason that glass has been around for thousands of years. It’s easy to make, requiring just three components (sand, limestone and soda ash, in the...

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  Does switching the type of packaging solve the issue?

  Companies are keen to use more sustainable solutions for packaging, but it is essential they do the right thing by their customers and the environment by finding the right solution.  It’s understandable that operators want to ‘do the right thing’ when it comes to packaging and their customers are eager to purchase products in packaging...

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  Sustainability problems need green solutions

  Short term pain for long term gain? The Plastics Tax can’t deliver sustainable outcomes on its own. We need more investment in infrastructure and recycling. With 8 million tonnes of plastics entering oceans each year it’s not surprising the Government has seen a plastics tax as a popular way to replace dwindling landfill tax revenues....

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  Plastic pollution clean ups won’t be enough – a global treaty is needed to stop waste at source

  Plastic pollution is rapidly outpacing our efforts to stop it, we need to urgently change the way we make and use plastic globally to be able to solve this crisis. It is obvious now that we are not going to recycle our way out of this problem and we cannot pull plastic out of the...

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  When is it appropriate to use compostable packaging?

  Globally, businesses from retailers and coffee shops to packaging companies and food suppliers are looking at how compostable packaging can reduce their ecological footprint. Whilst we know very little plastic is effectively recycled, especially films, we do know that compostable packaging can be recycled through composting back to soil as compost.  But does this happen in...

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  Ending plastic waste: increasing plastic reuse and stopping ocean plastic pollution

  Experts estimate that by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean. It’s imperative that businesses, government, NGOs and individuals work together to tackle this problem before it’s too late. Over the past few years, society and industry at large have grappled with a paradox on plastic. Since the advent of the...

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  Investing in plastic waste can reap rich rewards

  Investment in infrastructure for plastic re-use, collection and recycling offers promising returns and a viable path to end plastic pollution. From the Mariana Trench to the summit of Mount Everest, plastic waste has become ubiquitous. Identifying a stretch of the planet that has not been impacted by the plastic pollution crisis is difficult, yet even...

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