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Government urged to bring in full microplastics ban and ignore firms ‘crying wolf’ over costs

Sian Sutherland, co-founder of the anti-plastic pollution campaign group The Plastic Health Council told i that the Government should follow the EU’s lead, who brought in a full ban on intentional microplastics earlier this year.

Ms Sutherland said: “The question of a total or partial ban on microplastics in our products is a simple one. The Plastic Health Council was founded to place science at the forefront of policy, it is now for Defra to sit up and take note of the mountain of evidence that points to the toxic impact of microplastics and the chemicals they carry.”