The UK Government has published draft legislation proposing a ban on wet wipes containing plastic, following a Commons debate led

The UK government has announced a plan to ban wet wipes to reduce rising water pollution levels. The proposed ban

Wet wipes are a single use plastic, and there are increasing calls for environmental legislature to treat them like other single use plastics. 

Environmentalists retrieved tens of thousands of wet wipes from the Thames last week as part of attempts to clean up