All single use plastic should have been baned 20 years ago. It is absurd that it is still used when there are adequate alternatives, and "bio-plastics" can be made biodegradable. It is afront to nature and every living thing that we favor _...Read More_

Some harsh realities about the poor progress being made on plastic recycling targets…

>"Billions of the pellets end up in the sea, killing turtles, whales and dolphins, and are washed up on beaches _...Read More_

>"More than half of the species investigated had traces of plastic in their excrement, according to researchers looking into how much _...Read More_

One of my key areas for concern - and one that can easily be put right with better legislation and education of the public. Plastic production _...Read More_

A powerful deepdive into Unilever's behind-the-scenes efforts to lobby for plastic sachets while publicly pledging to cut back on their use. Our planet cannot be saved till major Corporations & businesses take the environmental fight _...Read More_

Great to see a bigger push towards renewable and sustainable packaging being used in supermarkets. World Refill Day (with _...Read More_

"Exxon and other major fossil fuel polluters are currently facing lawsuits from seven other state attorneys general, and more than a dozen municipal governments, for carrying out another decades-long “campaign of deception,” over climate _...Read More_

"Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people _...Read More_

"Half of the buoy was dark and the other light, like a planet in relief. The buoy sailed east, accompanied by the vastness of the ocean and all the life it contains, the long-lived great humpback whales with their complex songs that carry _...Read More_

A global summit on clearing up the oceans has produced big promises – is it just blah, blah, blah, or can we make the _...Read More_

"Plastic has escaped our understanding of it as a purely anthropogenic material, instead becoming an omen that can unfurl through space-time and sculpt what is to come."

>"The new pact would be legally binding and could go beyond cleaning up plastic waste to curbs on future production."

"A dump truck’s worth of plastic enters our oceans every minute and as with climate change, we’re running out of time to solve the plastics problem. If we delay action by just five years, an additional 80 million metric tons of plastic will _...Read More_