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• Will Australia follow Britain’s plastic straw ban?
• PP recycling key to P&G sustainability targets – USA
• China’s National Sword to cut post-industrial plastic scrap
• Canadians demand nation-wide strategy on plastic pollution
• Plastic bag taxes really work
• UK supermarket to eliminate all to-go coffee cups from stores
• Recycling hope for plastic-hungry enzyme
• South-east Queensland city to send all recycling from yellow-top bins to landfill – Australia
• Whale dies after swallowing nearly 30kg of rubbish
• Australian inventor’s marine plastic shredder gets royal seal of approval
• Plastic Pollution Campaign Victory! Deposit Return Scheme Announced for England! • Surfers Against Sewage – UK
• Royal Wedding Shines a Light on the Work of Surfers Against Sewage • Surfers Against Sewage
• Below the surface: Twenty-five years of seafloor litter monitoring in coastal seas of North West Europe (1992–2017)
• McDonald’s to start phasing out plastic straws from its UK restaurants
• Council bans use and sale of balloons – New York
• Shoppers to pay plastic bottle deposit – UK
• If it’s not biodegradable, refuse to use it – drinking straw becomes icon of pollution – Namibia
• Dismay as council replaces biodegradable food waste bags with plastic sacks – UK
• Queenslanders: are you ready to bin plastic bags? – Australia
• North Market Implements Ban on Single-Use Styrofoam Containers
• EU awake to the plastics threat
• Biodegradable straws replacing plastic in effort to cut back on litter
• Report: Plastic in the Ocean Will Triple in the Next Decade
• Plastic in Pacific ‘growing rapidly’
• Pittsfield Subcommittee Continues Debate On Plastic Bag Ban – USA
• Ban plastic bags now, says Canadiann professor
• Egg Harbor City introduces ordinance to ban the mass release of helium balloons -USA
• Disgruntled shoppers vent frustration over banana packaging – Australia
• First they came for the glitter, now it’s the balloons – Australia
• Dutch Supermarket Introduces Plastic-Free Aisle