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Forever Toxic: Health Threats From Plastic Recycling

In April 2024, Coca-Cola, the largest beverage manufacturer in the world, launched an eye-catching campaign titled ‘ Recycle Me ’ in...

Making Reuse a Reality: A systems approach to tackling single-use plastic pollution

Matthew Clark

Jun 143 min read

Making Reuse a Reality: A systems approach to tackling single-use plastic pollution

Environmental and economic arguments for reuse Too often conflated with recycling, reuse involves multiple circulations of reusable...

How the Ocean Is Under Threat From Plastics Pollution

Oscar Mackay

Jun 63 min read

Pollution

How the Ocean Is Under Threat From Plastics Pollution

It is not uncommon to see images or videos online of turtles trapped in plastic six-pack rings or with plastic straws stuck up their...

Plastics Recycling: More Problem Than Solution?

Sarah Edwards

May 213 min read

Plastics Recycling: More Problem Than Solution?

A recent study by the University of Strathclyde reveals that alarming amounts of microplastics are being produced by an unnamed plastics...

How Microplastics Are Infiltrating the Food You Eat

Sean Thomson

May 203 min read

How Microplastics Are Infiltrating the Food You Eat

Increasingly microplastics are finding their way into our wastewater, and whilst the fact that this may lead to plastics in our oceans is...

Nengi Ayika

May 163 min read

Plastic – Poison or an Antidote?

History – How Plastics came to being Do you know how we went from a race to win a ten-thousand-dollar reward to a full blown plastic...

Thread Carefully: Your Gym Clothes Could Be Leaching Toxic Chemicals

Sophie Barnett

Feb 173 min read

Thread Carefully: Your Gym Clothes Could Be Leaching Toxic Chemicals

If you are thinking of heading out on your daily run, walk or hike, have a read of how the chemicals in your clothing could be affecting...

Plastic Waste is Killing Marine Biodiversity

Helen Sou

Nov 14, 20233 min read

Pollution

Plastic Waste is Killing Marine Biodiversity

Poisoning. Dismemberment. Disease. It sounds like a horror film in the making. But this is the reality faced by many beneath the ocean’s sur

Ed Bedford

Jul 30, 20233 min read

Can You Really Compost Plastics?

Many objects describe themselves as being recyclable or compostable. For example, take-away coffee cups, which at first sight seem to...

Karen Flanagan

Jul 26, 20233 min read

Chemical Recycling

Plastic waste is mostly recycled mechanically – shredded, melted and shaped into new products. The UN has stated: 'chemical recycling...

Cut the Takeaways and Stop Smoking – Five Key Points From a Review of Plastic Policy in Switzerland

James Harrison

May 28, 20232 min read

Legislation

Cut the Takeaways and Stop Smoking – Five Key Points From a Review of Plastic Policy in Switzerland

Despite its 'pristine' public image, Switzerland’s environmental record turns out to have more holes than one of its famous cheeses....

Karen Flanagan

Apr 29, 20233 min read

Legislation

The UN Global Plastics Treaty

'Plastic pollution has grown into an epidemic. With today’s resolution we are officially on track for a cure.' Espen Barth Eide, Minister...

A New Disease is Threatening Wildlife – 'Plasticosis'

Daniel Grove

Apr 13, 20233 min read

Biosphere

A New Disease is Threatening Wildlife – 'Plasticosis'

The massive influx of plastic waste into our oceans is one of the most significant environmental crises currently impacting global...

Groundbreaking Law to Reduce Plastic Pollution From Washing Machines

Samin Ghiasi

Apr 11, 20232 min read

Legislation

Groundbreaking Law to Reduce Plastic Pollution From Washing Machines

France recently passed a groundbreaking law requiring all new washing machines sold in France to have filters that capture plastic...

How Tyres are Killing Salmon and Polluting Our Oceans

Daniel Grove

Nov 19, 20224 min read

How Tyres are Killing Salmon and Polluting Our Oceans

Tyres are the second largest source of ocean microplastics, and new research has identified them as the source of a lethal toxin that’s...

Artificial Grass: Bad News for People and the Planet

portiabutterworth

Nov 15, 20224 min read

Artificial Grass: Bad News for People and the Planet

First created for large playing fields, artificial grass can now be found in a whole range of businesses, schools, public roof terraces...

Alexandra Straton

Sep 3, 20222 min read

Corporate

Nurdles. They. Are. Everywhere.

Every plastic product we use is made of small 5mm plastic pellets (the size of a lentil) called nurdles, which are melted and moulded...

George

Jul 21, 20222 min read

The Human Cost of Plastic Bottles

Clean water is not just about how much you drink...

George

Jul 11, 20222 min read