
Michael Stephen
Michael Stephen is a lawyer and was a member of the United Kingdom Parliament, where he served on the Environment Select Committee. When he left Parliament Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc. attracted his attention because of his interest in the environment. He is now Deputy Chairman of Symphony, which is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, and is the founder and Chairman of the Oxo-biodegradable Plastics Association.


EU Ban on Plastics Unlawful (FREE)

No Sufficient Evidence to Ban Plastic and Aimplas FAQ (FREE)

Lobbyist Swamp in Brussels, Failed SUP Ban in India, Deliveroo (FREE)

Corruption in the EU Parliament, US Composting Consortium and Germany Rejects Crop-Based Biofuels (FREE)

Recycling Plastics, UK Government Will Not Support Compostable Plastic, Plastic Pacts Mislead Consumers (FREE)

Compostable Greenwashing, Home Composting – More Greenwashing (FREE)

Corruption in the EU, Not so Compostable and Cry for Help (FREE)

EU Talking About Biodegradable Plastic (FREE)

Recycling, Plastic Exports and Antimicrobials (FREE)

Time to Ban Compostable Plastics? Also SUP Legislation in Wales and Scotland (FREE)

Defra Finally Complies with Disclosure Order (FREE)

Innovation and the United Nations (FREE)

Anti-Plastic Zealots (FREE)

Agricultural Film and Global Plastic Treaty (FREE)

DEFRA (FREE)

Microplastics, Environmental Footprints and Coffee Waste (FREE)

Recycling and Food Waste (FREE)

Defra and Plastics in Agriculture (FREE)

Video, Canada, The Guardian, Food Waste, Recycled vs Virgin Polymer (FREE)

Oxford Analytica, Indonesia, Paper is not the Answer (FREE)

Korea, Carbon 13 Study, Defra, Food Shortages and Biobased Plastics (FREE)

Recyclass, Unilever, UK Plastic Packaging Tax (FREE)

Recycling, OECD and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (FREE)

A Threat to Humanity and Market Research (FREE)

Wrap and More Bad News for Compostable Plastics in UK Parliament (FREE)

Big Trouble Brewing for Resin Suppliers and Plastics Manufacturers (FREE)

Response to Association of Plastic Recyclers (FREE)

Oxo Degradable vs Oxo Biodegradable Plastics (FREE)

UK Parliamentary Committee and Bad News for Compostable Plastics (FREE)

Ellen MacArthur Foundation (FREE)

Virgin Mobile, Defra, OXO, Microplastics, End of Life Options

Plastiphobia (FREE)

Sustainable Agriculture, Canada, Consequence of Banning, United Nations (FREE)

No Alternative for Plastic (FREE)

Michael Laurier, A Saucy Problem and Unilever (FREE)

Microplastics (FREE)

Precautionary Principle, Anti Oxo Campaign and Defra (FREE)

Disposal in the Right Way and Defra Consultation Responses (FREE)

Defra December 2021 (FREE)

RWM Digital Spotlight and Plastiphobia (FREE)

Defra, India, Food Service Footprint Magazine and Waste 360 (FREE)

Defra (FREE)

Plastic from Algae and Carbon Dioxide (FREE)

Michael Stephen at Pack4Change Summit (FREE)

Freedom of Information and Plastic Waste Solutions (FREE)

Michael Stephen Video Interview on Antimicrobial and Biodegradable Packaging

UK Government, Defra and David Newman (FREE)

Microplastics (FREE)

Angry Farmers, DEFRA and Substitutes for Plastic (FREE)

Directors Talk, Confusion, Stir Magazine and Dumping Plastic Waste

EU Flawed Directive, Thailand and Pakistan (FREE)

Recycling, Is the Use of Biobased Plastics Increasing, Confused Australians and Biodegradable Future (FREE)

Minderoo Report and Korea Herald (FREE)

Packaging Digest

Plastic to the Rescue of Covid and More News from Brazil

Oxomar, UK Government and Microplastics

India, Australia and Dow Chemicals (FREE)

EU Scientific Reports and Paper vs Plastic (FREE)

OXO Biodegradable Plastic

Seaweed Plastic, Orange Peel and Xampla (FREE)

Recycling and Exporting Plastic Waste (FREE)

Intertek and Composting (FREE)

EU, Covid Lockdowns, WRAP, British Standards Institution and Polymateria (FREE)

EU Scientific Advisers, China Chose Wrong Bioplastics and Covid Nonsense (FREE)

Recycling and An Article from Austria (FREE)

Toxicity of Bio-based and Biodegradable Plastics, and Covid Scaremongering (FREE)

Support for OXO BIO, Westminster Forum, Euractiv and Covid

Covid 19 and Five Myths About Plastic

Power of Lobbying, Paper and Cotton Worse than Plastic

Compostable vs Biodegradable, Covid 19 and New British Bioplastic Standard

Kill the Virus, Marine Degradation, Airports, Brazil Retail, Plastic Growth and Face Mask

Professor Emo Chiellini, Plastics Today, Greenwashing and Coronavirus

Plastics Europe, Confusing Issues and Paper

Coronavirus, Plastic Litter, Bahrain and Polymateria

Tipa, Plastics Today and The American Genius

Running Scared, The Daily Telegraph and Market Report

Banana Republic, Why Turn Plastic into CO2 and Plastic Waste from Ships

Oxo Biodegradation, Independent Reports and Precautionary Principle
