News UK criticised for not following EU over plastic waste export ban 13th January 2021 Basel Action Network / Defra / plastic / Waste Exports News First medicine packet recycling programme launches for UK pharmacies 12th January 2021 healthcare / packaging / plastic / TerraCycle China trials AI-enabled sorting machines to keep plastic in circular economy 12th January 2021 Alibaba Group / plastic / Technology / Unilever News Research paves the way for studies on microplastics pollution 6th January 2021 Highways England / Microplastics / plastic News Plastic exports face disruption amid Basel Convention changes 4th January 2021 Basel Convention / plastic / Waste Exports News Tesco removes one billion pieces of plastic 4th January 2021 packaging / plastic / Tesco News £26 million to fund innovation projects to deliver UK Plastic Pact Targets 18th December 2020 plastic / The UK Plastics Pact / UKRI News European Plastics Pact Roadmap launched 17th December 2020 plastic / The European Plastics Pact / WRAP Webinar Advanced recycling of plastics, EPR and festive waste minimisation 16th December 2020 advanced recycling / EPR / plastic / waste minimisation News 102 million disposable facemasks discarded each week in the UK 15th December 2020 Coronavirus / NLWA / plastic / Single-Use News Boots’ beauty product recycling scheme saves over a tonne of plastic from landfill 14th December 2020 boots / plastic / Plastic Packaging News Welsh government backs project to turn waste plastic into carbon nanotubes 14th December 2020 plastic / Swansea University / Wales News Tesco cuts 20 million pieces of plastic from its Christmas range 9th December 2020 plastic / Plastic Packaging / Tesco News The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo and Nestlé named top plastic polluters for the third year in a row 8th December 2020 Break Free From Plastic / plastic / Plastic Packaging News UK Plastics Pact cuts ‘unnecessary’ plastic by 40% 8th December 2020 plastic / Plastic Packaging / Plastics Pact / WRPA News UK’s first plastic-free lidless disposable coffee cup launches 7th December 2020 ButterflyCup / coffee cups / plastic News French pilot uses chemically recycled polystyrene in yogurt pots 7th December 2020 Circular Economy / plastic / polystyrene News Huggies launches baby wipes that biodegrade after 15 days 5th December 2020 Biodegradable Waste / huggies / landfill / plastic First 1 2 … 20 21 22 … 38 39 Last
