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National Highways and partners have launched a campaign urging road users to bin their litter after revealing a link between roadside littering and wildlife fatalities
A study exposes widespread presence of nearly a quarter million invisible nanoplastics per litre in common bottled water
New York state is suing PepsiCo, alleging its role in plastic pollution along Buffalo River, with the company identified as a major contributor
The government has given the go-ahead to the deposit return scheme to tackle plastic waste
People will be paid to collect recyclable rubbish, including cans and plastic bottles
The company has been labelled the world’s largest plastic polluter in the past
Customers are able to return plastic or glass bottles and aluminium cans in exchange for vouchers worth up to £5
If the organisers receive one million statements of support within a year from at least seven different member states for the ‘ReturnthePlastics’ initiative, the Commission will have to react
It will have the capacity to recycle the equivalent of an estimated one billion PET bottles a year
Scientists have developed a method to upcycle PET plastic into vanillin, a flavour compound used in the food and cosmetic industries