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Assessing the Economic Impacts of a Potential Ban on Expanded Polystyrene Food and Beverage Containers

R&DCPV 73000000 73100000
Value£15k
Awarded16 Jun 2019
Published18 Jul 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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The brief

Expanded polystyrene may have significant negative impacts on the general environment when it is discarded after use.

The Government wishes to assess what the economic, environmental and social impacts would be of a possible ban of the items used as food and beverage containers, in England, weighing these impacts against the resultant environmental benefits.

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