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MPs: government needs to stop seas becoming a “sewer”

January 18, 2019

A group of cross-party MPs have urged the government to create a new global alliance tasked with protecting the seas. With plastic pollution set to treble in the next decade, according to environmental aud...

Choose Water: the ethical water startup with an eco-friendly water bottle made from paper

Dan Walsh

January 11, 2019

Business, Ocean, Packaging

We love reporting on companies that are creating new ways to tackle the plastic crisis facing us all across the globe. In the case of Edinburgh-based Choose Water, this is no different. Choose Water has cre...

Study Finds That Plastic Is Found In Almost All Of Alderney’s Gannet Nests

Juan Askew

January 11, 2019

Environment, Ocean, Wildlife

Plastic continues to be an enormous problem. On Alderney, for example, plastic is now present in almost 100% of gannet nests largely from fishing industry rope or line. This plastic mass continues to...

Broadcaster Sky joins forces with UK government to combat plastic waste

Dan Walsh

January 11, 2019

Business, Environment, Government, Ocean, Society

Following on from its recent support of swimmer Lewis Pugh’s ‘The Long Swim’, an initiative to generate awareness about the need to clean the world’s oceans, major broadcaster Sky is now teaming up with the UK...

The world’s first plastic-free flight takes to the skies

Dan Walsh

January 7, 2019

Business, Environment

For anyone that has travelled by plane recently, we’re certain you will have noticed the amount of plastic packaging you end up with during the flight. For one Portuguese airline, enough is enough. On the 27th...

Drowning Our Plastic Sorrows

Juan Askew

January 7, 2019

Ocean, Packaging, Wildlife

It is estimated that there are more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic, with a combined mass of more than 250,000 tons, floating in our oceans. Despite plastic production increasing twentyfold across the last h...

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