Posts By: Elisabeth Whitebread

People power puts mayoral candidates on the spot over fracking

After Theresa May shocked the country with a snap general election, election talk is dominating the news (at the disappointment of some). However, it’s not just the general election on June 8th that will change the politics of the UK. Today some of us will be… Read More

Elisabeth Whitebread - 4th May 2017

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Microbeads consultation: the good, the bad, & the ???

Back in September, the government announced it was planning to launch a consultation on banning microbeads, those pesky toxic beads that companies have added to face washes, toothpastes, washing powders and other products. Once rinsed down the drain these tiny plastics end up in our oceans,… Read More

Elisabeth Whitebread - 20th December 2016

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From L’Oreal to Revlon, which brands are polluting the ocean with microbeads?

(PS – it’s all of them!) After discovering that 170 types of seafood contained traces of microplastics, Greenpeace East Asia decided to put 30 of the world’s biggest cosmetic and personal care brands to the test. Microbeads might be best known to you as the coloured beads in… Read More

Elisabeth Whitebread - 21st July 2016

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Microbeads – the story so far….

Last Wednesday on World Oceans Day we handed our microbeads petition into Number 10. Over 300,000 of you signed the petition – one of the biggest petitions in Greenpeace UK’s history! This is the story of the campaign so far. In December the US passed… Read More

Elisabeth Whitebread - 21st June 2016

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