In the uk alone, the amount of single-use plastic wasted every year would fill 1,000 royal albert halls. the prime minister will also announce plans to help more children engage with the. Since then, the government has made plastic waste a centrepiece of its november budget, as well as its recently announced 25 year plan for the environment. in recent months we have also seen the. The uk sends 494,000 tonnes of plastic to china for recycling. at the start of this year china banned all contaminated plastic recycling. financial and market incentives required. james comments “there is simply no way our country will be able to conjure up the number of plants needed to deal with this waste build up, now that china has.
