MPS CALL FOR BOLD NATIONAL PLAN TO LESSEN WASTE EXPORTS AND INCREASE DOMESTIC RECYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE

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The UK can no longer afford to sweep its plastic waste problem under other countries’carpets if it wants to be a global environmental leader,says a new report.The report,from UK think-tank Policy Connect,has called for a bold national policy framework to reduce ocean plastic overseas and boost domestic infrastructure investment,innovation and green jobs.The’Plastics Packaging Plan: Achieving Net Zero’Waste’Exports’report is backed by 12 cross-party politicians and says the UK must urgently take back control of its share of the global plastics problem and needs an ambitious new roadmap to deliver a coherent circular and sustainable plastics policy that consumers feel proud of and protects marine life from UK plestic.