UK charity WRAP has launched the UK Plastics Pact, a voluntary scheme which brings together businesses responsible for 80% of the plastic packaging on products sold in UK supermarkets. The pact aims to make 100% of plastic packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025, among other goals.

Image: Hans, Plastic Bottles Recycling, Pixabay, Creative Commons CC0

Read more on the WRAP website here or on the BBC website here. See also the Foodsource resource How important is storage and packaging?

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30 Apr 2018
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