Plastic

CIG reveals alarming plastic production stats

April 11, 2018

Clover Imaging Group has released an infographic highlighting the worrying figures behind plastic production. The infographic reveals that 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced to date, on a global basis. This amount of plastic could cover an area the size of Argentina, leaving the 8th largest country in the world ankle-deep in the […]

The devil is in the details: UK’s plastic tax

March 19, 2018

While the UK waste industry has mostly responded positively to Philip Hammond’s plastic tax in the Spring financial statement, there are still calls for “greater recycling of the material”, as letsrecycle reports. In the financial statement, the Chancellor noted that “financial measures do exist in the environmental sector, including the Landfill Tax and the PRN […]