Pi: The Problem with Plastic at the Science and Industry Museum

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Pi: The Problem with Plastic

24 October 2018

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Plastic? It’s the final straw! Piles of single use packets and products are polluting our planet to devastating effect and it’s going take a lot of bottle (not plastic ones) to start turning back the tide. From banning shopping bags to revolutionising recycling, come and find out what’s being done, and what you can do to help.

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