/PRNewswire/ A STUDY published in the journal Global Environmental Change will today reveal a new policy tool developed by scientists could slash plastic.
Whitehall should fund urgent research on health impact of plastic, experts say
LONDON, July 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ MORE than 80 pre-eminent scientists, campaigners and MPs will today call on the Government to fund urgent research into the health impact of plastic waste.
The research fund is the brainchild of social enterprise Common Seas and is backed by leading charities Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and the National Federation of Women s Institutes.
Writing in an open letter to the Prime Minister, experts have today called on the Government to ringfence £15 million for a National Plastic Health Impact Research Fund.
In recent years, more evidence has suggested that plastic poses a threat to human health.
President ratifies amendment banning import of single-use plastics to Maldives
23 December 2020, MVT 08:54
On 22 December 2020, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih ratified the 18th Amendment Bill to the Export-Import Act (31/79) of Maldives, banning the import of products classified as single-use plastic. . PHOTO: PRESIDENT S OFFICE
23 December 2020, MVT 08:54
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, on Tuesday, ratified the 18th amendment to Maldives’ Export-Import Act (No. 31/79), which under Section 7, bans the import of all products declared as ‘single-use’ plastics.
The amendment, passed during the 28th sitting of Parliament’s third session on December 7, vests the President with authority to compile and publicise a list of goods to be classified as single-use plastics.