Items Tagged 'Plastic'

Features

• What Happens to Compostable Packaging in Home Composting Systems?
• A day in the life of a beach clean organiser

News

• Environment Bill sets out vision for a greener future
• Reaction: Environment and Fisheries Bills published today - an important first step towards wildlife recovery
• National Trust response to the new Environment Bill
• Government’s ambition to enhance the environment takes crucial step forward
• Seabird nests are full of discarded plastic debris
• Success for Scottish seas: Scottish Parliament votes through Deposit Return Scheme
• A new research centre to study the growing problem of plastic waste
• Help us #KeepItClean this summer!
• Surface clean-up technology won't solve ocean plastic problem
• UK supermarkets could cut throwaway plastic by 50% 2025 by reducing plastic across 54 grocery categories
• Single-use plastic straws, stirrers and cotton bud sticks banned in England from today
• Scientists awarded £2.6million to examine environmental impacts of biodegradable plastics
• Bags of opportunity for good
• Posidonia marine seagrass can catch and remove plastics from the sea
• Are Britain’s animals eating plastics?
• Poots considers money-back scheme on drinks bottles to tackle litter
• New education award empowers young people to tackle plastic pollution
• Is global plastic pollution nearing an irreversible tipping point?
• CGG and Snowdonia National Park Authority Identify Significant Microplastic Pollution on Summit of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon)
• WDC joins with BRITA to send plastic pollution warning
• EIA study reveals a 10 billion tonne plastic pollution bomb ticking away in every corner of the planet
• New global policy centre launched during COP26 to tackle the world’s plastic pollution problem
• Message in a bottle project highlights problem of ocean plastic to COP26 delegates
• Great British Beach Clean results: UK
• UK Plastics Pact cuts plastic packaging by 10% and doubles recycled content
• Solent plastic pollution hub launched for Hampshire litter pickers
• Research Centre will battle “disastrous” plastics pollution in agriculture and food
• New Campaign Goes to War on Wipes
• No plastic packaging – sell fresh uncut produce loose, says WRAP report
• Historic day in the campaign to beat plastic pollution: Nations commit to develop a legally binding agreement
• UK backs ambitious global action to tackle plastic pollution
• National Park project sees more than 300 hectares of woodland improved and 58,000 plastic tree guards removed
• New study reveals impact of plastic on small mammals, as four out of seven species identified as ‘plastic positive’
• Ospreys and the dangers of plastic
• The Big Plastic Count Results Report is out
• One-stop policy shop opens with solutions to end plastic pollution
• UK leads the way on ending plastic pollution
• Plastic ingestion widespread in Welsh seabird, study suggests
• A hitchhiker’s guide to floating marine debris
• Plastic diet could be causing seabird chicks to shrink
• First International Day of Zero Waste bolsters actions to address global pollution crisis
• Nurdles washed up at Kimmeridge Bay
• Plastic-eating fungi thriving in manmade ‘plastisphere’ offer exciting possibilities for tackling global waste
• Celebration to spotlight magical and mysterious wildlife of UK seas
• World’s most threatened seabirds visit remote plastic pollution hotspots, study finds
• Plastic pollution is higher in some lakes than oceans
• Pick up your butts! Cigarettes top plastic litter in rivers
• Rivers contain hidden sinks and sources of microplastics
• New bans and restrictions on polluting single-use plastics come into force
• Big River Watch Weekend: A first look at the data
• UN’s highest environmental honour celebrates innovative solutions to beat plastic pollution
• British gulls contribute to plastic pollution in European wetlands
• DRS delay will lead to 25 billion bottles and cans being littered, buried or burned
• UK helps secure progress towards new legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution
• Plastic items make up majority of litter in Scotland’s rivers and waterways
• Volunteers find less litter in this year’s UK-wide Plasticblitz
• Uncollected waste and open burning are leading causes of plastic pollution crisis
• Households waste over nine billion items every year that could be recycled
• Government to clean up communities with deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and cans
• Plastic pollution causing dementia-like signs in seabird chicks
• Communities hold the key to tackling plastic pollution, say researchers
• Stop unsustainable fishing, development, farm pollution, plastic and noise from blighting UK seas, say The Wildlife Trusts
• World Environment Day 2025 mobilizes commitment, action to end plastic pollution globally
• Plastic pollution and global warming are combining forces to disrupt ocean life, say Bangor University scientists
• Are sewage spills and coastal winds contributing to airborne microplastics?
• New scheme aims to tackle farm plastic pollution in rivers
• Talks on global plastic pollution treaty adjourn without consensus
• New research calls for global action on micro and nanoplastics in the atmosphere
• First evidence that plastic nanoparticles can accumulate in the edible parts of vegetables
• We urge UK Government to end ‘waste colonialism’ by banning plastic waste exports
• New study reveals more on the threat to marine life from plastic pollution
• Plastics dominate UK litter as rural and outdoor spaces emerge as pollution hotspots
• Wet wipes containing plastic to be banned
• Growing evidence that freshwater wildlife is impacted by microplastics
• Manchester researchers challenge misleading language around plastic waste solutions

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