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How Deep Is Your Plastic? Mariana Trench Deep..

January 16, 2019

The level of plastic pollution in our Oceans is well documented. We are bombarded with images of huge areas swamped by plastic debris, beaches and islands covered in mountains of the stuff and even seabirds an...

Channel Island-wide Beach Clean Gets Underway

Juan Askew

January 11, 2019

Environment, Ocean, Packaging

The Big Channel Islands Beach Clean will start today. Volunteers will be removing litter from beaches across all five of the islands over the weekend. Last year, the event attracted almost 600 volunteers, a...

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...

Like a virgin – BioCellection

Andrew Durkin

January 7, 2019

Packaging, Tech

Ok, with so much plastic around which is non recyclable (about 91% of all plastic produced is either too contaminated or difficult to recycle) and with about 300 million tons of plastic produced every yea...

Good Riddance To The Microbead Scourge

Juan Askew

January 7, 2019

Environment, Ocean, Wildlife

Plastic microbeads can no longer be used in cosmetics and personal care products in the UK, after a long-promised ban came into effect in 2018. The ban initially barred the manufacture of such products and a b...

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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