17 Oct 2019 --- Government backing is crucial to slashing plastic pollution by increasing access to reusable options, highlights a report from Break Free From Plastic Europe and the Rethink Plastic alliance. The report centers around reusable solutions, which it says are key to cutting the amount of single-use plastic packaging and products. Using case studies from around the continent as evidence, the report calls on governments to ban a variety of single-use items to achieve an 80 percent reduction on single-use plastic cups and food containers by 2030.