Sign up here A year ago this month, when global talks to end our spiralling plastic crisis collapsed, Emma Hardy, Britain's then marine minister and the UK's head of delegation, said she was "hugely disappointed". The UK is committed to working, at home and abroad, to "protect the environment and pave the way to a circular economy", she pledged.
Sign up here A year ago this month, when global talks to end our spiralling plastic crisis collapsed, Emma Hardy, Britain's then marine minister and the UK's head of delegation, said she was "hugely...
The UK is committed to working, at home and abroad, to "protect the environment and pave the way to a circular economy", she pledged.
Britain, one of the world's largest exporters of plastic waste, remains part of a global trade that enables us to send mountains of plastic rubbish to other, mostly poorer countries, fuelling pollution,...
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Sign up here A year ago this month, when global talks to end our spiralling plastic crisis collapsed, Emma Hardy, Britain's then marine minister and the UK's head of delegation, said she was "hugely disappointed". The UK is committed to working, at home and abroad, to "protect the environment and pave the way to a circular economy", she pledged. Britain, one of the world's largest exporters of plastic waste, remains part of a global trade that enables us to send mountains of plastic rubbish to other, mostly poorer countries, fuelling pollution, health impacts and waste crime.
Britain, one of the world's largest exporters of plastic waste, remains part of a global trade that enables us to send mountains of plastic rubbish to other, mostly poorer countries, fuelling pollution, health impacts and waste crime.
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