The war on plastics is about a lot more than bag levies, and all businesses need to respond

James Murray
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The policy blitz being aimed at plastic waste has barely started, and both the UK and Brussels are driving it

Earlier this week, in a sign that Brexit is scrambling priorities on both sides of the Channel, Defra and the European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt engaged in a rather unedifying spat...

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