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14.09.2018 MARINE LITTER  "World Cleanup Day" to tweak awareness / Ocean Cleanup vessel launched to collect waste in Pacific garbage patch

14.09.2018 RESEARCH  Finnish project to develop small, mobile factory to remove marine plastic waste / VTT unit to contain plastic-eating microbes / Plan for pilot unit in Baltic Sea in 2021

13.09.2018 OCEAN POLYMERS  Non-binding MoU with Saudi partner / Land and marine based recycling solutions

11.09.2018 INDONESIA  Local trade groups form an alliance to push up recycling rates across the country / Southeast Asian nation is one of the largest producers of plastic waste / Mass cleanup

11.09.2018 PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE  RecyClass checklists criteria to determine recyclability of PE films

10.09.2018 UK AGRICULTURAL PLASTIC  Scottish farmers banned from burning plastic waste from 2019 / Push for recycling

10.09.2018 DENMARK  Single-trip bottle deposit extended to juices / Closing the gap to 100% recycling

07.09.2018 PLASTICSEUROPE DEUTSCHLAND  Michael Herrmann leaving German plastics producers association

31.08.2018 PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE  Waste associations support European Parliament's draft for more recyclate in drink bottles

30.08.2018 ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING  EU draft law could threaten plastics recycling from e-waste / European associations view limit for flame retardant decaBDE in recyclate as unrealistic

29.08.2018 RESEARCH  Quantifying a biopolymer's degradation in soil / Microbes convert PBAT into biomass and carbon dioxide / Implications for agricultural films

28.08.2018 SINGLE-USE PLASTICS  Packaging value chain pleads for amendments on EU proposal / Statement from 68 European associations

27.08.2018 MARINE LITTER  Pacific garbage patch on alert / Ocean Cleanup to launch floating collection system in September / Estimates of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in gyre

24.08.2018 MASTERBATCHES  Bottlenecks with soluble colourants from China / German association sounds alarm

24.08.2018 SINGLE-USE PLASTICS  UK government publishes consultation on disposable plastics tax / Chancellor Philip Hammond notes "extraordinary" public interest

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