With consumers across the UK demanding a switch away from plastic, unprecedented development into plastic alternatives, new business models and alternatives ways of thinking are required. While both industry and government have recognised the need to re-invent the UK plastics economy, enacting real-world change requires cooperation and communication across the [...]
We have been working with Mepex on behalf of the Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA) to map the impacts of a switch away from 19 commonly-littered single use plastic items in Norway. On 27 March 2019, the European Parliament formally passed the Single Use Plastic Directive, which will require Member States [...]
We have been appointed by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) to work alongside the Commonwealth Litter Programme (CLiP) in Belize to undertake a global review of current restrictions on single use plastic (SUP) items. In April 2019 the Belizean government moved to ban single use plastics [...]
