
Everyday Plastic
@plasticeveryday
An evidence-led social enterprise, delivering accessible learning & campaigns that tackle the effects of the plastic problem.
Co-founders of #BigPlasticCount
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Up to 70 per cent of soft plastics given to supermarket recycling schemes end up being incinerated, an investigation has found. Matilda Davies reports: thetimes.com/uk/environment…

🚨 NEW: Up to 70 per cent of soft plastic given to supermarket recycling schemes ends up being incinerated More on the shocking investigation by Everyday Plastic and Environmental Investigation Agency U.S. below 🧵👇 1/ Read the full story in The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.com/article/51649d…




Campaigners Everyday Plastic & Environmental Investigation Agency put trackers in the soft plastic collected by supermarket recycling schemes and found that most of it ended up being burned theguardian.com/environment/20…

Well done to Everyday Plastic for exposing the harmful impacts of soft plastics collected for recycling ending up being incinerated, and for setting out the case for real action on plastics (including the call for the UK Government to immediately ban new incineration capacity).

Sign our petition to push Sainsbury's and Tesco to publicly support real action to cut plastic production. It's been a week since the launch of our investigation with Environmental Investigation Agency into supermarket soft plastic recycling schemes. Whilst we've had an amazing response from the public,