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… and beyond. Almost all the plastic ever created still exists in some form, from waste … problem reaches crisis levels, public pressure to tackle plastic waste has pushed it up the political agenda. In … – which might harm corporate profits. The problem with plastic We are drowning in plastic. Science Magazine …

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… summed up the striking way that the pressing need to tackle plastic over-use shot up the public agenda in recent years. … 2018 proposal on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment’. At least partly due … as they need to be to significantly reduce dependence on plastic, they are nevertheless a positive step forward. …

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… “specializes in developing and marketing a wide range of plastic products and other environmental technologies, and … worldwide. In particular, their oxo-biodegradable plastic technology needs to be better understood in Europe. It does not just cause the plastic to fragment, but converts it at the end of its …

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… to action by several years. Such delays directly benefit plastic polluters, even though the plastics crisis … EU’s directive on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (also known as the … plastics over-consumption. Thus industry – including plastic manufacturers, the packaging industry, food and …

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… likely to publish its proposal to tackle single-use plastic products any day, will it adopt an ambitious … on industry? We are drowning in plastic. Science Magazine has reported that as many as 8.3 billion tonnes of virgin plastic have been produced to date, with the vast majority …

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… has yet been made. Going further back in time, the 'Plastic Bag Affair' alleges that in the 1990s, while … FPÖ, the current Justice Minister Josef Moser received a plastic bag containing five million schilling (nearly …

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… directive, which bans or restricts various single-use plastic products. Now one plastics industry lobby seems to … group Pack2Go has attempted to boil down concerns about plastic waste to the problem of litter, in order to deflect … to reduce the production and use of one-off, throw-away plastic products. Now Pack2Go has cynically rebranded …

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… of the Czech Republic (AVNH); and the Czech Plastic Cluster . SCHP wrote its own letter to the … Nonetheless an industry lobby – the German Plastic Packaging Association – appears to have had good …

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