date:Oct 28, 2020
Tesco, Waitrose and Aldi are among more than 40 major organisations calling on the UK Government to stop plastic materials which require additives to degrade to be sold on the UK market.
The calls follow news that the British Standards Institution (BSI) enacted a new specification (PAS9017) this month supporting the sale of such plastics.
In an open letter, the organisations have called on the Government to follow the lead of the EU, which is banning similar oxo-degradable plastics from next y