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Organisations call for oxo-degradable plastics ban

More than 150 organisations, including Unilever, PepsiCo, M&S, the BPF and ten members of the European Parliament, have endorsed a statement published by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s (EMF) New Plastics Economy initiative calling for a global ban on oxo-degradable plastics packaging following evidence associating them with microplastics pollution. Oxo-degradable plastics have been proposed as a…

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