Recycle Now and Clear on Plastics have launched a citizen campaign encouraging the recycling of plastic bags and wrappings at front-of-store locations. ‘Repeat the Cycle’ aims to reduce the ...

Households, schools and communities are being asked to record their plastic packaging waste as part of an annual survey documenting UK’s waste problem. Campaign group Everyday Plastic have already ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you put plastic packaging into your recycling bin, it might be a surprise to learn that the least likely thing to happen is ...

Plastic recycled in the UK could increase by 3.5 times by 2030, the British Plastics Federation (BPF) has said in its 2021 Recycling Roadmap. The roadmap estimates that plastics recycling could ...

The UK produces more plastic waste per person than almost any other country in the world, and many of us spend time carefully sorting our recycling. But what actually happens to the plastic bottles, ...

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