Decoding UK’s Plastic Packaging Tax


Did you know that over 5 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide every year? That’s a whopping 160,000 plastic bags every second! [1] While plastics have many valuable uses, we are addicted to single-use plastics that come with severe environmental consequences.

The only way to reduce single-use plastics going into landfills and oceans is to adopt the usage of recycled plastics. It is only by increasing the demand for recycled plastic that we can succeed in reducing our dependency on single-use plastics.

Read more — https://emmbi.com/decoding-uks-plastic-packaging-tax/

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