Stores That collect plastic bags for recycling will now accept clean plastic film packaging, such as bread wrappers, in the same facilities, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has announced. The thin plastic, also used around multipacks of cans and household goods such as toilet roll, makes up 43 percent of all plastic household packaging and weighs in at 645 000 tonnes every year. Thin plastic film is fully recyclable but until now most people have had no means of recycling it.
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