In April 2024, Coca-Cola, the largest beverage manufacturer in the world, launched an eye-catching campaign titled ‘ Recycle Me ’ in...

Environmental and economic arguments for reuse Too often conflated with recycling, reuse involves multiple circulations of reusable...

Increasingly microplastics are finding their way into our wastewater, and whilst the fact that this may lead to plastics in our oceans is...

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

Described as the most important green deal since the Paris Accords, 180 nations have taken key steps towards agreeing a legally binding...

Many objects describe themselves as being recyclable or compostable. For example, take-away coffee cups, which at first sight seem to...

Despite its 'pristine' public image, Switzerland’s environmental record turns out to have more holes than one of its famous cheeses....

Think Switzerland and many will recall the Von Trapps gambolling across alpine hills to freedom and Broadway history. But movie buffs...

Since its conception in 1907 by Belgian Chemist Leo Baekeland, plastic has played a significant role in shaping how modern society is...

The energy crisis has caused bills to rise globally and has forced many into poverty. The issue was worsened by Russia’s invasion of...

'Plastic pollution has grown into an epidemic. With today’s resolution we are officially on track for a cure.' Espen Barth Eide, Minister...

GOOD NEWS: The government announced its own New Year’s Resolution in the first week of January: the banning of single-use plastic cutlery...