Comic Relief goes green with plant-based plastic red nose

Cecilia Keating
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Next year's red nose will be fossil fuel-free, in the wake of environmental campaign protesting previous nose by primarily school students

Red Nose Day is set to have a bio-plastic makeover, with Comic Relief announcing today it will ditch its iconic plastic nose in favour of a plant-based alternative made out of bacassa, a sugar cane biproduct....

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