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Jul 63 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...

The Future Is Returnable – A Circular Economy for Plastic Cups

Samuel Ehrenstein

Jun 293 min read

Lifestyle

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...

The Global Food Waste Failure: Examining the Role of Throwaway Plastic Packaging

Stuart Pike

May 153 min read

Waste

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. ...

Thread Carefully: Your Gym Clothes Could Be Leaching Toxic Chemicals

Sophie Barnett

Feb 173 min read

Lifestyle

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...

A Sustainable World: Making the Transition to Reusable Packaging

aliscottwriter

Feb 153 min read

Lifestyle

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 143 min read

Lifestyle

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...

Plastic Fashion: The Switch From Fossil Fuelled Clothing to Sustainable Style

Finola Stowe

Oct 31, 20232 min read

Lifestyle

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,...

How to Talk to People About the Plastic Crisis

portiabutterworth

Aug 8, 20233 min read

Lifestyle

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

Lifestyle

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...

Lifestyle Carbon Emissions of the Rich and Famous

Daniel Grove

Jan 23, 20233 min read

Lifestyle

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...

Is Clothing Made of Recycled Plastic Truly a Good Move, or Just More Greenwashing?

Laura Free

Nov 21, 20223 min read

Lifestyle

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...

How Tyres are Killing Salmon and Polluting Our Oceans

Daniel Grove

Nov 19, 20224 min read

Lifestyle

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...

Artificial Grass: Bad News for People and the Planet

portiabutterworth

Nov 15, 20224 min read

Lifestyle

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

Lifestyle

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...

Sachets – The Big Problem in a Few Words

Alexandra Straton

Aug 25, 20222 min read

Lifestyle

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

Lifestyle

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

Lifestyle

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

Pollution

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...

What Would a Flying Free World Look Like?

Emily

Jul 2, 20225 min read

Lifestyle

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

Lifestyle

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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