Flexible Plastic Fund: Major food brands launch £1m bag, pouch and sachet recycling drive

Cecilia Keating
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Mars, Unilever, Pepsi Co and Nestle among those backing £1m Flexible Plastic Fund

Some of the UK's largest consumer goods companies and supermarkets have jointly launched a £1m fund that aims to invest in efforts to make plastic bags, wrappers, firms, pouches, packets and sachets easier...

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