plastic pollution

They amended the Basel Convention to include plastic waste as a legally binding framework

It is inviting applications from charities, academic institutions, social enterprises, schools and colleges until 24th January

Up to £60m is being provided for competitions to tackle the global plastic pollution problem

It aims to enable the move of plastics from being a single-use disposable material to a ‘valued resource’

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It aims to encourage UK shoppers to avoid using single-use plastic bags while helping reduce poverty in Haiti and the Philippines

They will set targets that include eliminating problematic or unnecessary plastic packaging and move from single-use to reusable packaging models

It is offering a share of £1m to support solutions that help ‘capture, collect, recover and reprocess’ marine plastic waste

It aims to encourage countries to make new commitments while helping them deliver old ones

Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey is to urge other nations at the UN General Assembly in New York this week to push for the global target