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This time of year the plastic recycling industry suffers from a phenomenon known as the “Christmas Effect”. Although Christmas was over and done with around a month ago it’s this…

For a while, supermarkets have provided facilities to collect customers’ used ‘soft’ plastics for recycling. This includes carrier bags, bread packaging, breakfast cereal liners, bubble wrap, frozen food bags, toilet…

Let’s talk about plastic bags. If you’re like me, you used to use single use carrier bags as a throw away item. Come home with the shopping then bin the…

At Bright Green Plastics, we consider ourselves to be the plastic punks, fighting a good fight against the tidal wave of negative press around this versatile and life enhancing material.…

Household recycling rates may be on the rise, but are the symbols on packaging transparent enough to show us how to correctly and responsibly recycle our waste? We think they…