Single-use plastic sachets should be banned, say environmental campaigners 'We have become slaves to the sachet', environmental group says. Sarah Jones. Wednesday 26 February 2020 09:21 GMT.

Calls made for beauty sample sachets to be made illegal in England single-use plastic ban. The cosmetics industry produces 122 billion plastic sachets each year. Charley Ross.

Single-use sachets were first mass-produced by Hindustan Unilever, the Indian arm of UK's Unilever, in the 1980s to sell small portions of shampoo for 1 rupee per sachet ($0.018).

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Lagos residents voice concerns over the January 2025 ban on single-use plastics and sachet water, fearing job losses and economic disruption in state.