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James Laing & Catarina Pratas
Jun 283 min read
Plastics and Forever Chemicals: How PFAS Damage the Environment and Your Health
Over the last few months, you might have noticed more news stories talking about forever chemicals. But you might not realise the true...
Oscar Mackay
Jun 63 min read
How the Ocean Is Under Threat From Plastics Pollution
It is not uncommon to see images or videos online of turtles trapped in plastic six-pack rings or with plastic straws stuck up their...
Sarah Edwards
May 213 min read
Plastics Recycling: More Problem Than Solution?
A recent study by the University of Strathclyde reveals that alarming amounts of microplastics are being produced by an unnamed plastics...
Sophie Barnett
Apr 153 min read
Small Town Explosion: What Really Happened in East Palestine?
It was over one year ago that a train in East Palestine, Ohio derailed and caused an explosion, waking residents in the small town. The...
Fraser Fillery
Feb 143 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...
Helen Sou
Nov 14, 20233 min read
Plastic Waste is Killing Marine Biodiversity
Poisoning. Dismemberment. Disease. It sounds like a horror film in the making. But this is the reality faced by many beneath the ocean’s sur
oscarmackay12345
Oct 13, 20233 min read
Sand is Getting Hotter, Thanks to Plastic
Have you ever gone to the beach and had to awkwardly hop along the sand and take refuge under umbrellas due to the hot sand beneath your...
Samin Ghiasi
Apr 11, 20232 min read
Groundbreaking Law to Reduce Plastic Pollution From Washing Machines
France recently passed a groundbreaking law requiring all new washing machines sold in France to have filters that capture plastic...
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...
Alexandra Straton
Sep 3, 20222 min read
Nurdles. They. Are. Everywhere.
Every plastic product we use is made of small 5mm plastic pellets (the size of a lentil) called nurdles, which are melted and moulded...
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...
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