Author: Joshua Doherty
A study commissioned by the Office for Product Safety and Standards into the risks of using recycled materials in some products has found there is a “clear and undesirable circular economy of e-waste plastics”. This, according to the report, is occurring when e-waste is exported to countries where “substantial informal recycling industries exist”. Plastics containing restricted chemicals are then “re-entering the UK and being exported around the globe in a diverse range of cheap plastic products, likely those manufactured in those same countries”.