Oceans

If you care so much, Coke, why aren’t your bottles 100% recycled?

Posted by John Sauven - 13th July 2017
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Coke bottle found on a beach clean in Mull, Scotland
All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace

Coca-Cola’s grand announcement on plastic packaging is a lot of PR fizz. But when you look at the detail, it’s all a bit flat. The news that the company is to increase the amount of recycled plastic in its bottles to 50% shows a startling lack of… Read More

Coke are still choking our oceans: Our response to Coca-Cola’s PR spin

Posted by Fiona Nicholls - 12th July 2017
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Coke Bottles Found on Beach Clean Mull Scotland
All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace

People power works. Over 90,000 of us have emailed the bosses of Coca-Cola saying enough is enough, and after 3 months of pressure from Greenpeace, Coke is finally realising the risk that ocean plastic pollution is posing to its brand. This morning Coca-Cola made an announcement in response to all… Read More

“Plastic pollution is everywhere. It was on every beach we surveyed.”

Posted by Tisha Brown - 11th July 2017
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Crew from the Beluga II survey a beach called Shell Inlet on the Isle of Lewis in the outer Hebrides.
All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace

Below is the transcript of a speech given by John Paterson, a member of Greenpeace Inverness who joined the Beluga expedition on the land team. My name is John Paterson. I am a non-practising Marine Biologist who has always had an interest in the sea and has supported… Read More

Winning on the world’s largest tuna company and what it means for the oceans

Posted by Sarah King - 11th July 2017
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It took two years of relentless campaigning and nearly 700,000 concerned people from around the world, but today we are sharing the good news that together we convinced the world’s largest tuna company to clean up its act! Tuna giant… Read More

Why SpongeBob is the perfect champion for the Amazon Reef

Posted by Priya Surendra - 4th July 2017
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So you might have seen SpongeBob SquarePants waving a placard around telling BP to back off the Amazon Reef and thought: ‘What a minute… what?’ Yeah. It’s not everyday that the world’s most famous sea sponge stands up to big business. But with more… Read More

BP’s next disaster? Not on SpongeBob’s watch!

Posted by Priya Surendra - 4th July 2017
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BP are at it again. The company responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster wants to drill for oil near the pristine Amazon Reef. What could possibly go wrong? ???? Home to pink corals and sunset-coloured fish, the Reef has been described as… Read More