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11.09.2019 PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE  EuPC's third survey on recyclate usage by European processors / Available in seven languages

05.09.2019 ALDI  Cotton swabs made of plastic to be replaced in Germany / Plastic packaging in UK to be reduced / Cooperation with Plastic Bank in the Philippines

29.08.2019 MICROPLASTICS  Presence in run-off could threaten drinking water / Cautious WHO report says more data needed / Monomers leached into environment during polymerisation not primary concern

27.08.2019 PLASTICS AND HEALTH  US study shows bisphenol A substitutes in urine correlate with obesity

22.08.2019 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT  UN establishes global plastics waste prevention group / Marine litter reduction the goal

19.08.2019 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT  Collaboration in Vietnam to boost recycling efforts / Japan's Suntory sets targets for more sustainable PET packaging

16.08.2019 ITALY  Resorts ban single-use items / Rome metro trials bottle recycling system

16.08.2019 MICROPLASTICS  Aimplas project to probe wastewater treatment technology in Valencia / Standardised methodology is needed

07.08.2019 CHINA  Shanghai's waste separation law in effect / Demand for plastic bins climbs / Hainan island bans single-use plastics

31.07.2019 SWITZERLAND  More than 5,000 t of plastics enter the environment each year / Discharges into the soil are 40 times greater than those into freshwater / Lake Geneva heavily contaminated with macroplastics

31.07.2019 SINGLE-USE PLASTICS  UK supermarket Iceland relaunches plastic-free packaging trials / First attempt resulted in food waste

25.07.2019 USA  Coca-Cola and PepsiCo leave Plastics Industry Association following pressure from Greenpeace

22.07.2019 PLASTICS AND HEALTH  ECHA adds four new substances to SVHC list / Two labelled as endocrine disruptors

18.07.2019 PLASTICS AND HEALTH  EU general court dismisses PlasticsEurope's BPA challenge / Listing as a SVHC and endocrine disruptor under REACH stands

17.07.2019 PLASTICS RECYCLING GERMANY  Environmental group accuses Henkel of consumer fraud / Definitions of post-industrial and post-consumer recyclate disputed

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