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22.09.2017 MARINE LITTER  Transformation of trash into sustainable products / UNEP student programme to fight plastic in oceans

06.09.2017 KENYA  Launch of wide-sweeping plastic bag ban / Draconian penalties for use / Other African countries to follow

16.08.2017 BIOPLASTICS  Spanish Aitiip Technology Centre to develop bio-additives for plastic bottles from plants / Part of EU's “LIFE” programme

09.08.2017 CARRIER BAGS  Tesco phases out 5p plastic bags / Recyclate “bags for life” to cost 10p

07.08.2017 COLOMBIA  National plastic bag fee introduced in July / Follow-up to awareness and recycling campaign

04.08.2017 BIEGLO  German PEEK distributor accomodates shift to circular economy / Recycled plastics portfolio extended

01.08.2017 AIMPLAS  "MIPLASCOE" project to turn waste from oranges into biopolyesters / Collaboration with industry and academia

31.07.2017 COSTA RICA  National initiative to replace single-use plastics with renewables by 2021

27.07.2017 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT  Around 5.5 bn t of plastics have not been recycled / Global analysis by US scientists

24.07.2017 MOROCCO  Authorities get hold of 420 t of forbidden plastic bags / Large efforts across the country to go green

14.07.2017 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT  World Plastics Council undertakes marine litter combat / Increasing awareness for waste prevention concepts in Asia / G20 Action Plan announced in Hamburg

07.07.2017 MARINE LITTER  Waste Free Oceans organises collection and processing of floating litter / Products made of recycled marine plastics

20.06.2017 PLASTICS AND HEALTH  BPA added to ECHA's SVHC list / Member State Committee unanimous

19.06.2017 PLASTICS RECYCLING  EuPC launches survey on the use of recycled plastics materials in Europe / Poll closes end of September

13.06.2017 TITANIUM DIOXIDE  ECHA set to classify pigment as category 2 carcinogen / Industry takes issue

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