'Upholding structural inequality': Government slammed after British plastic found strewn across Turkey

Cecilia Keating
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Major investigation from green group highlights how plastic produced by major UK retailers is being illegaly dumped and burned across Turkey

Greenpeace has warned that more than half the plastic waste the government counts as recycled is being dumped overseas, as it published the results of a major investigation into how plastic from British...

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