Alleviating loneliness

This meeting calls on every WI and the NFWI to work alongside health and social care
providers and their local community to raise awareness of the causes and impacts of
loneliness, thus ensuring better identification of lonely people in order to be able to offer them the appropriate assistance and support.

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Plastic Soup: Keep microplastic fibres out of our oceans

Microplastic fibres are shed from synthetic clothing with every wash and are the main
contributors to microplastic contamination of the oceans. The NFWI calls on Government and industry to research and develop innovative solutions to this problem in order to stop the accumulation of microplastic fibres in our oceans.

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