Football fans back calls to give single-use plastic a red card

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Green groups call on top football clubs to switch to re-usable cups and phase out single use plastics

Friends of the Earth and the British Association for Sustainable Sports (BASIS) have today called on football clubs to introduce returnable cup schemes, citing new evidence that fans across the country...

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