BOOTING OUT WET WIPES
High street chemist Boots is to stop selling plastic-based wet wipes in its UK stores. Wet wipes are found in 140 product lines across …
NEWS FROM MOLD PLASTIC REDUCTION
Here are news items about single use plastic and how to use less of it, plus posts on wider environmental concerns and about the MPR group and its activities. If you’re not already doing so, you can also keep in touch with what’s going on via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – and/or subscribe to our newsletter using the form below.
NEW “POLLUTER PAYS” RULES
Wales is to introduce new “polluter pays” rules aimed at making businesses which place packaged goods onto the market pay for their waste to …
MOLD SPRING CLEAN
Mold Spring Clean will take place from 25-28 March. Anyone wishing to help tidy the town can get details from Mold Town Council by …
MICROPLASTICS IN WATER
An environmentalist from North Wales is helping show that microplastics are present in waterways throughout the UK. Laura Owen Sanderson, who founded the non-profit …
MICROPLASTICS IN HUMAN BLOOD
Microplastics have been found in human blood for the first time. When blood samples from 22 anonymous donors were analysed, 17 of them were …
PLASTICS TREATY GETS GO-AHEAD
On 2 March, 175 nations endorsed a landmark agreement to end plastic pollution. Organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) the initiative aims …