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“It is really important to have clear infrastructure for what we call ‘end-of-life’. Plastic is single-use unless it can be recycled, or, even better, reused,” said Dr Rachael Rothman, the co-director of the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield.