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Mark Johnston
Jul 6, 20243 min read
A Story for Plastic Free July
“If you really believe in something you can make it happen and it’s okay to make it up as you go along.”* Back in 2016, Dan Webb thought...
Samuel Ehrenstein
Jun 29, 20243 min read
The Future Is Returnable – A Circular Economy for Plastic Cups
The WWF-UK reports that in the UK alone we use between 2.5 billion and 5 billion disposable coffee cups every year. The UK government...
Stuart Pike
May 15, 20243 min read
The Global Food Waste Failure: Examining the Role of Throwaway Plastic Packaging
With 49 million tonnes of plastic consumed annually across Europe in packaging alone, our appetite for plastic grows ever more ravenous. ...
Sophie Barnett
Feb 17, 20243 min read
Thread Carefully: Your Gym Clothes Could Be Leaching Toxic Chemicals
If you are thinking of heading out on your daily run, walk or hike, have a read of how the chemicals in your clothing could be affecting...
aliscottwriter
Feb 15, 20243 min read
A Sustainable World: Making the Transition to Reusable Packaging
There can be no doubt that plastic places an enormous burden on our planet. Plastic pollution damages habitats and ecosystems, reducing...
Fraser Fillery
Feb 14, 20243 min read
Vapes, Coming to a Pond Near You
E-cigarettes and their potentially harmful effects on aquatic plants. You may have smelt it before you’ve seen it, a new scourge of...
Finola Stowe
Oct 31, 20232 min read
Plastic Fashion: The Switch From Fossil Fuelled Clothing to Sustainable Style
Half a million tons of plastic microfibres, found in many fast fashion clothing items, are being dumped into the ocean each year,...
portiabutterworth
Aug 8, 20233 min read
How to Talk to People About the Plastic Crisis
You might want to broach the topic of plastic waste at work, discuss synthetic clothing fibres with a friend or talk astroturf with a...
Alexandra Burton
Feb 10, 20233 min read
The Real Cost of Your Period
Did you know that one pack of single-use menstrual pads contains the same amount of plastic as 5 carrier bags? When we consider that, on...
Daniel Grove
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Lifestyle Carbon Emissions of the Rich and Famous
The wealthiest 10% of the world’s population are responsible for 50% of lifestyle-based carbon emissions. If they reduced their emissions...
Laura Free
Nov 21, 20223 min read
Is Clothing Made of Recycled Plastic Truly a Good Move, or Just More Greenwashing?
The Situation In recent years, brands such as H&M and Primark have advertised their clothing ranges made from recycled bottles. Brands...
Daniel Grove
Nov 19, 20224 min read
How Tyres are Killing Salmon and Polluting Our Oceans
Tyres are the second largest source of ocean microplastics, and new research has identified them as the source of a lethal toxin that’s...
portiabutterworth
Nov 15, 20224 min read
Artificial Grass: Bad News for People and the Planet
First created for large playing fields, artificial grass can now be found in a whole range of businesses, schools, public roof terraces...
Sumana Ahom
Sep 24, 20222 min read
Plastic-free and Sustainable Fashion
Plastic-free and sustainable clothing are big news right now, and for good reason. People are starting to realise the implications of our...
Alexandra Straton
Aug 25, 20222 min read
Sachets – The Big Problem in a Few Words
Sachets are small, single-use sealed plastic pouches that contain one portion of a product. The developing world has seen an explosion of...
Anne-Sophie
Jul 11, 20222 min read
How Did We Live Before Plastics?
Mass produced plastic has only been around since the 1950s, and yet there is already 7.9 billion tons of plastic in landfill or in the...
George
Jul 11, 20222 min read
Keeping Our Tea Plastic-free
Teabags Use Plastic? We know plastic is hidden in all sorts of surprising things, but teabags take the biscuit. Lots of teabags have...
Mark
Jul 4, 20221 min read
There is Hope!
With 11,000 organisations and individual supporters world-wide, this is a movement that supports us all. 'Hope has built this movement...
Emily
Jul 2, 20225 min read
What Would a Flying Free World Look Like?
We can't all live our lives without planes in the sky, but what might we be able to change to have a lower impact? A longer read...
Anne-Sophie/ Emily
Jun 16, 20223 min read
Small Change - Big Impact
World Refill Day was last month, but every day it's about reduce, reuse, refill, repeat. #breakfreefromplastic...
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