The ban also includes single-use plastic trays, bowls and balloon sticks, with the Westminster government saying the aim was to reduce plastic pollution.Saturday 30 September 2023 18:54, UK Climate Change Plastics This is a modal window. Video Unavailable A ban on single-use plastic plates and...
The UK's fight against plastic pollution is stepping up a gear – with the sale of single-use plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds now illegal in England. The ban, which kicked in Thursday, was due to take effect in April but was put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Off...
Covid-19 has highlighted the urgent need to step up the global adoption of sustainable development in order to combat climate change – including, first and foremost, a ban on single-use plastics. In line with this, one Hong Kong-based green tech start-up has invented a plant-based alterna...
In the US, a variety of cities and states have already enacted some form of plastics ban. However, there is currently no federal legislation in the US tackling single-use plastics, and consequently the laws and ordinances that do exist vary from city to city and state to state.A bill enti...
"The ban does send a message to manufacturers to start looking at alternatives to single-use plastics, but the scope of the ban is very narrow," says Danielle Purkiss, researcher and architect at the UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub. "When you read the detail, you can see that what is ...
“Once we collect the plastics, then we can use it again. So we either recycle it, or we thermally recycle it.”UK fighting to stem flow of plastic pollution into world’s oceans Experts say the oceans already contain more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic, and only 5 percent of what...
The European Union is moving to ban single-use plastics entirely by2021, and the UK could achieve the same as early as next year. 欧盟会议正推动禁塑令,到2021年完全禁止一次性塑料制品,英国最早可能在明年实现这一目标。 Single-use plastics are everyday items – such as straws, bottles,bags, ...
The European Union is moving to ban single-use plastics entirely by2021, and the UK could achieve the same as early as next year. 欧盟会议正推动禁塑令,到2021年完全禁止一次性塑料制品,英国最早可能在明年实现这一目标。 Single-use plastics are everyday items – such as straws, bottles,bags, ...
Among some of the suggested reforms the proposed Bill asks the UK Government to: set targets to eliminate single-use plastics, to develop proposals that encourage more reuse and refill models of packaging, and to ban plastic waste exports by 2027; require manufacturers and retailers to pay for...
The return to disposable cups, lined and lidded with polymers, is just one sign of how coronavirus has set back the battle against single-use plastics. Concern about infection has driven consumers back to throwaway packaging, while bans on disposable items have been delayed in the UK and US....