Plastic packaging ban 'could harm environment'

[Sean Botelho]

Firms are swapping to other packaging materials which are potentially even worse for the environment, the cross-party Parliamentary group warns. Glass bottles, for instance, are much heavier than plastic so are far more polluting to transport. Because paper bag are harder to reuse and  have higher carbon emissions than plastic bags this could create more problems when this ban was created to help environmental problems


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