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The change aims to make recycling easier for customers and is expected to remove 82 tonnes of plastic per year from the supply chain

The companies are leading a consortium to fund breakthrough research into sustainable materials with five million Swiss francs (£4.4m)

The confectionary giant is now a signatory of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment and a member of the UK Plastics Pact

The new initiative helps customers source clear polythene film containing 30% post-consumer recycled scrap material from any of Mainetti’s production sites in the world

The fast food chain will now offer Happy Meals with soft toys or books, saving 3,000 metric tonnes of plastic

Peel Environmental says such facilities are needed to deal with plastic waste where recycling is not a viable option

The supermarket chain says it has removed 3,794 tonnes of plastic to date, the equivalent weight of 36 blue whales

That’s the suggestion made in a new report from thinktank Green Alliance, which says current approaches “completely fail to deal with the root of the problem”

The company, which works to develop new bio-industrial solutions to reinvent and extend the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers,

The firm aims to reduce the use of virgin plastics by a third and achieve 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025