The grant will support the existing European partnership between Xampla and 2M Group of Companies to bring its Milton Keynes manufacturing site up to a Morro production capacity of multiple tonnes per day.
New research from Aquapak shows that 76% say the fashion/retail industry is not doing enough to reduce plastic packaging and 67% want to see a greater use of paper-based packaging.
State and local governments around the world have begun instituting bans and restrictions on straws and other single-use plastics, but consumers too have an important role to play by refusing to use plastic straws while their go-to brands make the transition to new alternatives.
In 2019 there was a strong, quite single-minded push against plastics in general from several places in activism and the media. Now, these plastics are both protecting the dedicated men and women on the front line of the pandemic and protecting the very patients whose lives they are trying to save.
Senate Bill 54 and Assembly Bill 1080 sought to eliminate 75% of single-use containers by 2030 to reduce unmarketable plastics statewide and lay the groundwork for a revamped California recycling industry.
