Posts By: Louisa Casson

I'm a campaigner in Greenpeace UK's oceans team, leading our campaign to create the world's largest protected area in the Antarctic ocean.

What soft drink companies are saying

It’s been three weeks since Greenpeace launched our expose on the gigantic plastic footprint of the soft drinks industry – and their lacklustre action to protect our oceans from the blight of throwaway plastic bottles. Our ‘Bottling It’ report called out the top six global soft drinks companies… Read More

Louisa Casson - 7th April 2017

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Don’t bottle it!

Plastic bottles are a common sight in our day-to-day lives. Go into a newsagent, supermarket or train station, and you’ll be inundated with choices of bottled water and soft drinks to buy.  But another all too familiar sight is empty plastic bottles on our streets, in our rivers and on… Read More

Louisa Casson - 10th March 2017

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Wake up and smell the coffee!

Cappuccino, flat white, soya latte, hot chocolate or just a nice cup of tea – whatever your hot drink of choice, if it comes in a takeaway cup unfortunately it’s a bad choice for the planet. Most people think that takeaway cups can be recycled – after all some… Read More

Louisa Casson - 10th March 2017

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Microbeads in the spotlight!

This week, microbeads shot up the political agenda (again) – thanks to Greenpeace supporters (again!) and a host of coalition members. At the end of February we asked you to get in touch with your MPs to ask them to grill ministers on their plans to ban… Read More

Louisa Casson - 2nd March 2017

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