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Plastic Pollution – Why Coca-Cola need to take responsibility too

Posted by Louisa Casson - 13th April 2017
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One of the best things about working on Greenpeace’s campaign to end ocean plastics is the chance to have lots of conversations with all sorts of people about the issue – whether on local radio stations or with pedestrians walking past the 2.5 tonne sculpture we installed outside Coca-Cola’s London… Read More

5 Reasons Why We’re Outside Coca-Cola’s HQ

Posted by Louisa Casson - 9th April 2017
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This morning, we’ve installed a piece of art right to the doorstep of Coca-Cola’s European office, to hold the soft drinks giant accountable for ocean plastic pollution. As the world’s largest soft drinks company, Coca-Cola has a special responsibility for the plastic that is wrecking… Read More

7 reasons to Go Electric now

Posted by Fran Grobke - 7th April 2017
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What pops into your head if I suggested you buy an electric car? For most people, it conjures up a host of stereotypes. Electric cars are thought to be either unreasonably expensive, like Teslas; or they don’t travel far enough; or they’re just plain ugly. And up until recently… Read More

What soft drink companies are saying

Posted by Louisa Casson - 7th April 2017
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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

Reduce your exposure to air pollution

Posted by Emily Randall - 5th April 2017
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Air pollution is a problem. It won’t go away until politicians and the car industry come together with a plan to make truly clean travel possible for everyone. In the meantime we can protect ourselves and the ones we love by taking steps to reduce our exposure to… Read More

A sustainable fishing industry is a fair fishing industry

Posted by Rosie Rogers - 29th March 2017
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“We will defend our hard-won Common Fisheries Policy reforms. We will continue to devolve management…and rebalance the UK’s inland water quotas to smaller, specific locally-based fishing communities” – 2015 Conservative Party manifesto Greenpeace has a long history of working with small scale and low impact fishers to ensure their voice… Read More