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Do ocean sanctuaries really work?

Posted by Willie Mackenzie - 10th April 2019

Image for Do ocean sanctuaries really work? — All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace

Our oceans are massive and unlike most places on land, they don’t really have borders. Animals, water (and sadly now plastic) all move freely across our global oceans. Because of this, some people have asked if ocean sanctuaries are an effective way of protecting our… Read More

Sizing up Tesco’s deposit return scheme trial

Posted by Alice Hunter - 3rd October 2018

Image for Sizing up Tesco’s deposit return scheme trial — 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.

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

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

In Pictures: Fighting Plastic Pollution on World Oceans Day!

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 8th June 2018

Image for In Pictures: Fighting Plastic Pollution on World Oceans Day! — Plastic caught up in the bleached corals around the Addu Atoll in the Maldives.

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

In Pictures: Ending Plastic Pollution on Earth Day!

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 22nd April 2018

Image for In Pictures: Ending Plastic Pollution on Earth Day! — Underwater image of a turtle with plastic on his head.

It’s Earth Day today and this year’s theme focuses on ending plastic pollution. It’s hard to escape plastic – from plastic bags and tiny microbeads in our toothpaste, to disposable plastic bottles and computer keyboards. When plastic rubbish makes its way from the landfill sites into… Read More