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Apr 27 2021
In 2019, British supermarket chain Waitrose & Partners launched its ‘Plan Plastic – The Million Pound Challenge’ scheme. In essence, the initiative was intended to use the money from the sale of 5p single-use plastic bags to fund projects aimed at tackling the problem of plastic pollution.
This issue is an increasingly serious one, with an estimated eight million tonnes of plastic ending up in our oceans every year. More still find their way into the atmosphere in the form of airborne plastics, the long-term health ramifications of which are still not fully understood.
As a result, Waitrose picked five innovative start-ups and schemes from across the UK which targeted reducing the amount of plastic waste present in our environment. The winning schemes, which received grants of between £150,000 and £300,000, are as follows:
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In 2019, British supermarket chain Waitrose & Partners launched its ‘Plan Plastic – The Million Pound Challenge’ scheme. In essence, the initiative was intended to use the money from the sale of 5p single-use plastic bags to fund projects aimed at tackling the problem of plastic pollution.
This issue is an increasingly serious one, with an estimated eight million tonnes of plastic ending up in our oceans every year. More still find their way into the atmosphere in the form of airborne plastics, the long-term health ramifications of which are still not fully understood.
As a result, Waitrose picked five innovative start-ups and schemes from across the UK which targeted reducing the amount of plastic present in our environment. The winning schemes, which received grants of between £150,000 and £300,000, are as follows:
By Ellis Hawthorne2021-04-07T09:50:00+01:00
Forgetting to bring reusable bags to the supermarket can stir up a lot of emotions: frustration, anger, even guilt. But, thanks to some smart investing by the retailers, we needn’t dwell on that last one for too long. With help from environmental charity Hubbub, Waitrose used the 5p bag charge to begin a £1m grant fund to which over 150 projects applied. Here are the five winning projects and what they’re doing with the funding.
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