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A study into ''oxo-degradable'' plastics, often labelled as degradable or biodegradable, found there was uncertainty about their impact on the natural environment.

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London could become Britain’s first plastic-bag-free city, under plans published today by Boris Johnson to reduce litter and landfill waste.

Mr Johnson, the Mayor of London, will propose completely unambitious targets today for cutting the amount of waste going to landfill and a complete ban on this form of disposal by 2025.

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"Four billion fewer plastic bags a year are being thrown out with the rubbish by Hong Kong people as the city's environmental consciousness grows, officials said Wednesday. A government study found there had been a 66.5-per-cent drop in the number of plastic bags thrown away in the past four years from 8.7 billion a year to 4.6 billion"

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Seven of the UK's leading supermarkets – who are all British Retail Consortium members – have met a tough target to halve the number of bags handed out by the end of May 2009. Their customers used almost 420m fewer carrier bags in the UK this May, compared with the same month in 2006 – an amazing 48% reduction.

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