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Buy lunch with your recyclable waste at London’s ‘rubbish cafe’

A pop-up ‘rubbish café’ has opened this week in Covent Garden, London, which accepts recyclable plastic as currency to buy lunch or coffee.

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UK’s largest household appliance recycling plant opens

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Gove calls on sports industry to tackle plastic waste

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UK pledges £61.4m to help clean up oceans

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NHS uses 334,000 disposable coffee cups a day, new data reveals

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Unilever push forward with plastic recycling technology

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Environmental impact of Easter eggs highlighted in new report

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Brits not willing to put concern about plastic waste into action

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Government announces deposit return scheme plans

The Government has announced plans to introduce a deposit return scheme in a bid to curb the number of plastic bottles going to waste.

The environment secretary, Michael Gove, today confirmed the Government is set to launch a consultation on introducing such a scheme in England later this year.

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Southern Water launches plastics policy

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Food for thought: time to trim the waste line

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Raising a glass to sustainability

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Starbucks announce $10m (£7m) challenge to design a recyclable coffee cup

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Greater Manchester aiming to become the UK’s greenest region

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Plastic recycling specialists raise £3.7m through crowdfunding

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Britons are getting recycling wrong