Environmental groups call for Labour to tackle the ‘plastic crisis’

Responding to the Labour Party’s landslide victory in the general election, co-founder of A Plastic Planet & Plastic Health Council, Sian Sutherland said: “Having secured a historic majority, Prime Minister Starmer and his government now has no excuse to not implement lasting policies that tackle the plastic crisis head on. For years our country has subjected to a distinct lack of ambition and delay from the Conservatives, all whilst our neighbours in the EU have pulled ahead. Now is the time for ambition and for the UK to lead. Piecemeal bans and tired models of recycling won’t cut it.”

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