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Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace are among campaign groups deeply concerned about the new facility

The Government has promised to be ‘on track to at least 95% clean power by 2030’.

The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global crisis of plastic pollution

The UN’s new plastics treaty is about to be finalised – marking a crucial opportunity to form an international agreement to tackle the plastic pollution crisis. Plastic waste is ubiquitous – damaging human health and livelihoods, as well as ecosystems in water and on land; yet plastic production is at…

Plastic pollution is no longer just an environmental issue – it is a health crisis and a significant driver of the climate crisis

Island nations say recycling insufficient to solve problem when 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is produced yearly.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband called the package a ‘critical 11th-hour deal at the 11th hour for the climate’.

Scheme has collected a fraction of the waste it set out to handle and is struggling with broken machinery and poor finances

Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment accused of producing 132m tonnes of it