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...
And the plan goes back even further, to 2018 when Sky Ocean Rescue was campaigning on single-use plastics. So why recycle the policy? The consultation in 2021 showed there was overwhelming public support for a ban. So making it a headline issue once again is a good way of distr...
In Oct 2023 - the ban on single-use plastics caused disarray for many packaging suppliers of the food service industry. Still to come, is the new EPR that replaces the current Packaging Waste Regulations and the payment of the packaging fees to start in 2025. The UK Government is also exp...
London declared a “war on plastics”, saying it planned to ban single-use plastic cutlery, plates, and polystyrene cups in England. As the legislation still has to clear parliament, the ban may not take effect until April 2023, about the same length of time it took the EU law to be ...
The current position on single-use plastics in the UK is more complex. In Scotland a range of single-use items were banned from 1 June 2022. Similar bans were approved by the Welsh Senedd in December 2022. The UK Government remains behind the curve for England, but ...
environment...We've been calling for producers of unrecyclable material to develop a plan to stop this from entering the environment for years. That needs to happen urgently, but the Government should now consider banning low-grade plastics, particularly those for single use, in order to ...
“I think it’s a slam dunk. I don’t think there can be any question about that. The polluter pays phrase was the one thing that got into the government’s Green Paper [Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s] on this. So, while they…you know, calling it an industry levy...
such as closed-loop supply chains and product-as-a-service models. Furthermore, the government of London also recently launched the London Climate Action Plan, which sets out several targets to help make London a zero-carbon city by 2050. The plan includes several actions to promote a CE, ...
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The new government says it will take another look at changes to packaging, including deposits on bottles. Image:The MCS is now calling on the government to introduce a deposit scheme for plastic bottles It also wants binding regulations as part of a Global Plastics Treaty. ...