25 staff laid off at agency key to May's plastic reduction pledge
by Adam Vaughan from Environment | The Guardian on (#3DHQ8)
Wrap, the agency responsible for tackling waste, blames government cuts for the redundancies, that come just a week after the prime minister's pledge
Just one week after Theresa May and Michael Gove promised to eradicate the scourge of plastic waste, government budget cuts have forced a key agency charged with tackling the problem to make more than a tenth of its staff redundant, a move campaigners said could sabotage progress.
About 25 people are losing their jobs at the Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap), the body's chief executive confirmed on Wednesday.