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  "path": "/uk/news/2026/03/12/mothers-day-flowers-have-a-massive-environmental-cost/",
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  "textContent": "Research shows that UK shoppers intend to buy 20 million bouquets of flowers for loved ones this Mother’s Day. But as each bouquet often comes wrapped in a plastic sleeve, this contributes to a disheartening amount of plastic waste. New data shows that equates to around 2.7 million m² of plastic film. This would be […]\n\nBy The Canary",
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