UK under growing pressure to ban all exports of plastic waste

Call for environment bill returning to parliament to be strengthened to tackle global plastic waste crisis

Campaigners are urging the UK government to ban the export of plastic waste to all countries, invest in a domestic recycling industry, and set a binding target for plastic reduction.

Activists are pushing for the environment bill - which is returning to parliament on Wednesday - to be strengthened to tackle more effectively the global plastic waste crisis.