Supplier: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA, UK)
Website: http://www.defra.gov.uk
89% of people call on UK government to support compostables as “solution to plastic crisis”
New data shows that the majority of UK adults support substituting conventional plastic with compostable alternatives and want local authorities and government to do more to incentivise the collection of compostable packaging
First study on economic impact of bio-plastics industry to the UK presented by the BBIA at the House of Lords
The analysis produced by CEBR shows that a proper legislative framework would enable the development of a UK bio-plastics sector with 35,000 jobs and £2 billion of gross value added to the economy, considering packaging alone
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