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Designer creates algae based packaging for plastic free world

January 21, 2019

Chilean designer Margarita Talep has created an alternative packaging option. Using raw material extracted from algae, the alternative to single-use plastic packaging is entirely eco-friendly, sustainable...

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

Dan Walsh

January 18, 2019

Environment, Government, Ocean

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...

Marks and Spencer trials plastic-free produce

Dan Walsh

January 17, 2019

Business, Packaging

UK retailer Marks and Spencer has announced it is trialling plastic-free produce at one of its stores in London to try and reduce the amount of plastic-waste generated. 90 lines of loose fruit and veg will...

Ooho! rolls out edible ketchup packaging in successful trial across London

Dan Walsh

January 16, 2019

Business, Environment, Packaging

Hopefully you will have read our piece recently on Ooho!, the company created by Skipping Rocks Lab that specialises in edible packaging. Today we have more news from the East London startup… Over eight wee...

National Trust introduces fully biodegradable magazine wrapper

Sarah Bedwell

January 16, 2019

Business, Environment, Packaging

UK members magazine arrives in potato starch packing Members of the UK's National Trust are receiving their first newsletter and magazine of 2019 in an eco-friendly wrapper. Made from potato starch, the Tru...

Ladies, plastic free periods are the future!

Sarah Bedwell

January 10, 2019

Environment, Next Generation, Packaging

Regular menstrual products are a major issue - it's time to make a change? The Tampons, pads and pantyliners we use each month are filling our planet with plastic waste! It's not always the visible par...

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...

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