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Companies pledge to reduce plastic packaging
The companies have pledged to eliminate single-use packaging over the next seven year.
Major supermarkets sign UK Plastics Pact

More than 40 UK companies, including Aldi, Pepsico and Unilever, have agreed to reduce their use of plastics by 2025.

The companies are all signatories of the UK Plastics Pact, which was launched on Thursday (26 April) by WRAP, the sustainability campaign group. Amongst the commitments includes a pledge to make 100 per cent of plastic packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable.

The companies have also pledged to eliminate single-use packaging over the next seven years and to ensure that 70 per cent of all plastic packaging is effectively recycled or composted.

WRAP’s CEO Marcus Gover said: “Together, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink and reshape the future of plastic so that we retain its value, and curtail the damage plastic waste wreaks on our planet.

“This requires a wholescale transformation of the plastics system and can only be achieved by bringing together all links in the chain under a shared commitment to act. That is what makes the UK Plastics Pact unique.  It unites every body, business and organisation with a will to act on plastic pollution. We will never have a better time to act, and together we can.”

Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, added: “Our ambition to eliminate avoidable plastic waste will only be realised if government, businesses and the public work together. Industry action can prevent excess plastic reaching our supermarket shelves in the first place.

“I am delighted to see so many businesses sign up to this pact and I hope others will soon follow suit.”

The Pact will stimulate innovative new business models to reduce the total amount of plastic packaging. It will also help build a stronger recycling system, where individuals take more responsibility for their own waste and ensure plastic packaging can be effectively recycled.

WRAP states that the immediate focus will be on identifying the priority projects that will deliver greatest impacts in the short and long term. This includes overcoming barriers to increasing the amount of recycled content used in new packaging. 

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Birmingham Dogs Home makes urgent appeal

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 Birmingham Dogs Home has issued an urgent winter appeal as it faces more challenges over the Christmas period.

The rescue centre has seen a dramatic increase in dogs coming into its care, and is currently caring for over 200 dogs. With rising costs and dropping temperatures, the charity is calling for urgent support.

It costs the charity £6,000 per day to continue its work.

Fi Harrison, head of fundraising and communications, said: "It's heart-breaking for our team to see the conditions some dogs arrive in. We really are their last chance and hope of survival."

More information about the appeal can be found here. 

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Avian flu confirmed at premises in Cornwall

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in commercial poultry at a premises near Rosudgeon, Cornwall.

All poultry on the infected site will be humanely culled, and a 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone have been put in place. Poultry and other captive birds in the 3km protection zone must be housed.

The case is the second avian flu case confirmed in commercial poultry this month. The H5N5 strain was detected in a premises near Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, in early November. Before then, the disease had not been confirmed in captive birds in England since February.

The UK chief veterinary officer has urged bird keepers to remain alert and practise robust biosecurity.

A map of the disease control zones can be found here.