The United Kingdom dumps 1.8m kilos of plastic on other countries every single day. That’s 688,000 tonnes of plastic a year that doesn’t get recycled but sent overseas to the detriment of local communities and their wildlife.
Recycling in the UK is built on a myth. Hoping to bust it, the UK government is high up on Greenpeace’s hit list. It wants to ban all exports of plastic, as the European Union did in December last year, which it details in a report titled: ‘Trashed: How the UK is still dumping plastic waste on the rest of the world’. Read full story ›
Source: The Drum