Campaigners have welcomed chancellor Philip Hammond’s call for ideas on financial carrots and sticks to drastically cut single-use plastics in his spring statement. However, they stressed the need for more rapid action, reports CATHERINE EARLY
… the University of Manchester found that UK rivers are heavily contaminated with broken down plastic debris. They examined river sediments from 40 sites across Greater … rural streams in the hills and urban rivers in the city centre. Microplastic …