{"id":5098,"date":"2024-04-23T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2024-04-23T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T07:32:09","slug":"plastic-wet-wipes-to-be-banned-in-the-uk-by-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/plastic-wet-wipes-to-be-banned-in-the-uk-by-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic wet wipes to be banned in the UK by summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wet wipes containing plastic are to be banned from being sold in the UK, with legislation announced by Environment Secretary Steve Barclay on 22 April 2024. Barclay says the move is needed to protect our waterways from \u201can unnecessary source of pollution\u201d. The new law means it will be illegal to sell wet wipes containing plastic in England, before being rolled out to the rest of the UK later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Wet wipes containing plastic break down into microplastics over time, which research shows can be harmful to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/friendsoftheearth.uk\/sustainable-living\/wet-wipes-keeping-them-out-our-seas-and-sewers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human health and disrupt ecosystems.\u00a0<\/a>It is hoped the ban will reduce plastic and microplastic pollution and reduce the volume of microplastics entering wastewater treatment sites.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link to read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired-gov.net\/wg\/news.nsf\/articles\/UKwide+ban+on+wet+wipes+containing+plastic+to+be+put+into+law+22042024112000\">UK-wide ban on wet wipes containing plastic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image by Drazen Zigic on Freepik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wet wipes containing plastic are to be banned from being sold in the UK, with legislation announced by Environment Secretary Steve Barclay on 22 April 2024. Barclay says the move is needed to protect our waterways from \u201can unnecessary source of pollution\u201d. The new law means it will be illegal to sell wet wipes containing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}