Cornwall’s beaches still look beautiful from a distance. But walk the tideline after a storm, or look closely at the wrack line where seaweed gathers, and a different story emerges – one of fragments, fibres, plastic bottles, crisp packets, and broken objects that were never meant to be here.
Coca-Cola is set to revise its packaging and labelling practices across the European Union after facing a greenwashing complaint filed with the European Commission. The Commission confirmed today that the beverage giant will amend or withdraw certain recycling-related claims that were deemed misleading. This comes after a formal complaint was ...
“I don’t think that plastic is going to affect the shark very much as they’re munching their way through the ocean.”
Recession hits the EU’s plastics recycling industry As the world produces increasing amounts of plastic and plastic waste, the downward trend in the European plastics recycling market is alarming. The increasing lack of demand for recyclates produced in Europe, the reduced investments in domestic recycling, and the increase in imports of ...
"It is not woke. It is simply good sense."
Long-lasting ‘forever chemicals’ were found in 18 out of 20 brands of paper drinking straws in Belgium.
As a result, the safe level of BPA in plastic containers in the UK is now 20,000 times higher than in Europe.
The WasteShark can collect up to 500kg of plastic waste – the equivalent of 22,700 plastic bottles – a day.
Global plastics production was estimated to be 367 million metric tons in 2020 - with more than a third for food.