Plastics

Sizing up Tesco’s deposit return scheme trial

Posted by Alice Hunter - 3rd October 2018
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Plastic bottle deposit return scheme at Iceland Supermarket in London. The bottles are exchanged for a token worth 10p per bottle that can be spent in the store.
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UK supermarket Tesco has announced that it will be trialling a deposit return scheme (DRS) in several of its stores around the country. This is great news – countries with effective DRS schemes collect up to 97% of bottles, so Tesco’s trial is a… Read More

What’s the answer to our plastic problem?

Posted by Alice Hunter - 22nd August 2018
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We’re all worried about the issue of plastic packaging – but what’s the real solution? Are bioplastics made from organic materials the answer? Can’t supermarkets just make all plastic recyclable? And doesn’t plastic packaging keep food fresh and prevent food waste? Sound familiar? It’s time to… Read More

How to change the world, one plastic bottle at a time

Posted by Will McCallum - 11th July 2018
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Hi, I’m Will and I’ve dedicated the last 3 years of my life to the anti-plastics movement. As Head of the Oceans campaign at Greenpeace UK, I’ve been working with governments and companies to prevent our plastic crisis, as well as researching what everyday consumers can do to reduce… Read More

Happy World Oceans Day!

Posted by Fiona Nicholls - 8th June 2018
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The theme for this year’s World Oceans Day is ocean plastics and on behalf of all sea creatures, every turtle, whale, seabird, zooplankton – too right. We’ve produced a whopping 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics since the 1950s, and with plastic production… Read More

In Pictures: Fighting Plastic Pollution on World Oceans Day!

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 8th June 2018
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Plastic caught up in the bleached corals around the Addu Atoll in the Maldives.
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The focus for this year’s World Ocean Day is preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean. Plastic pollution is one of the greatest threats to the health of our oceans, choking and entangling marine wildlife. These pictures are a sad testament of the problems caused by the tonnes of… Read More

Plastic pollution reaches the Antarctic

Posted by Louisa Casson - 7th June 2018
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It’s not what we wanted to find. When Greenpeace set sail to the Antarctic earlier this year, we were going to look for the incredible wildlife – tottering penguins, majestic whales, soaring seabirds – that call the Antarctic Ocean home. But even in these incredibly… Read More