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# single-use plastics

This year
2024
What is the new deposit-return scheme for bottles and cans and how will it work?
The scheme is being rolled out from Thursday.
Last year
2023
England to ban single-use plastic cutlery and plates two years after EU
All time
Opinion: If we don't act now on plastic pollution, we will run out of choices
Mandatory brown bin collections could be introduced under new waste strategy
Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza are getting rid of mini shampoo bottles by 2021
'Ambitious' single-use plastic straws and cutlery ban approved by European Council
MEPs approve EU-wide ban on range of single use plastics by 2021
Poll: Should products come with a warning if they damage the environment?
Call for wet wipes to have 'mandatory warnings' because of their damage to environment
The government is declaring war in 2019 (on single-use plastics)
EU reaches landmark agreement to cut usage of single-use plastics
Poll: Do you use wet wipes?
New Zealand to ban single-use plastic bags
Minister calls on supermarkets to reduce the use of non-recyclable plastic packaging for fruit and veg
The EU is going to ban single-use coffee cups by 2030