The EU has banned many kinds of single-use plastics, the British government is contemplating as it has been doing for the last five years whether it's going to ban anything but hasn't done anything yet. I don't think you can compete against this giant industry without legislation to ban this stuff,. It's toxic, it's greenhouse got to missing, we do not need to be going in the developed world by water and plastic bottles, it's just not needed. But you know again we're up against a huge marketing industry and sort of these industry makes an enormous amount of money so I think as an ordinary person it's about our vote.
The environmental law charity ClientEarth and 13 other groups headed into a Flemish court this week in an effort to stop Ineos building a petrochemical plant that would be the biggest project of its kind in Europe for 30 years. Madeleine Finlay hears from correspondent Sandra Laville about how plastics are made, the environmental and health impacts of the process and what needs to be done to get a handle on plastic pollution. Help support our independent journalism at
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