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Microbeads - What does a ban look like?

Posted by alice.hunter — 26 August 2016 at 4:41pm - Comments
A full ban on any plastic in any household product that goes down the drain
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On Wednesday this week, the Environmental Audit Committee released a report calling for microbeads to be banned. But what does an effective ban look like? The ban in the US, whilst signalling a huge step forward, is riddled with loopholes.

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Microbeads ban creeps closer as MPs demand action

Posted by Fiona Nicholls — 24 August 2016 at 3:20pm - Comments
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MPs call for microbeads ban

Great news this morning - an influential government committee just backed our call for a ban on microbeads!<--break->

Sign the petition - ask Theresa May’s Government to show leadership on this important environmental issue and ban microbeads.

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Microbeads - the story so far….

Posted by Elisabeth Whitebread — 21 June 2016 at 5:17pm - Comments
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Microbeads on a fingertip illustrating just how tiny they are

Last Wednesday on World Oceans Day we handed our microbeads petition into Number 10. Over 300,000 of you signed the petition - one of the biggest petitions in Greenpeace UK’s history! This is the story of the campaign so far.

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Government's environmental scorecard from Environmental Audit Committee

Last edited 16 September 2014 at 2:58pm
16 September, 2014

Tuesday 16th September, 2014, London - In response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s ‘environmental scorecard’, Dr Doug Parr, Chief Scientist at Greenpeace UK said:

 

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