Talk about kelping the environment! Just Eat is testing compostable SEAWEED food boxes in drive to tackle plastic pollution in the takeaway sector Just Eat is testing Notpla’s seaweed-coated boxes with 11 restaurant partners The trial will last 3 weeks, during which Just Eat predicts as many as 30,000 plastic boxes will be prevented from … Read more
Chemicals and pieces of plastic produced through the use of packaging are migrating into food and harming plants and soil ecosystems, scientists warn. Ecologists from the Free University of Berlin contributed one of three evidence-based essays exploring the problem of microplastics and how best to tackle them. The German team, led by Matthias Rillig, they … Read more
A Bolivian lake that was once an oasis of natural beauty full of thriving wildlife has become a waterless basin full of plastic waste. Lake Uru Uru in western Bolivia is covered in mountains of rubbish including plastic bottles and other man-made garbage for as far as the eye can see. The piles of rubbish … Read more
The reality of plastic pollution was horrifically clear when this river overflowed. Trees and bushes along its banks were draped with ragged blue plastic bags. The pollution is tainting a pocket of nature in east London, a haven where kingfishers can be seen darting into the water, bream come to spawn and black poplars, Britain’s … Read more
Has the Government lost its bottle over the scourge of plastic pollution? Scandalously — and inexplicably — it seems so. Yesterday, barely 24 hours after a minister boasted that Britain was a ‘global leader when it comes to tackling plastic’, the Mail revealed that an official ‘bottle return’ scheme has been put back until at … Read more
They’ve bottled out: Fury as plastic bottle deposit scheme is delayed for three years as ministers lay blame on Covid pandemic Deposit return scheme to encourage bottle recycling was put back until 2024 Government said plans would go ahead but it would consult ‘continued appetite’ Ministers claim delay is due to Covid but it has dismayed … Read more
Waitrose bans plastic toys in children’s magazines in latest eco drive… after bowing to pressure from girl, 10 Skye Neville, 10, called on magazine publishers to improve carbon footprints Waitrose has pledged to do away with magazines that come with the items It has also urged publishers to replace ‘pointless plastic’ with other alternatives By … Read more
Tiny ‘nanoparticles’ of plastic that drift around every surface and substance of our world can pass from a mother’s body to her fetus’s brain, heart or lungs, a new study in rats suggests. We don’t know exactly how these tiny bits of trash affect human health, but we do know that humans ingest and inhale … Read more
Three million face masks are discarded every minute as a result of mass adoption during the coronavirus pandemic, and experts warn it could soon lead to environmental catastrophe. Face coverings are being worn by the majority of individuals around the world in order to curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus which causes Covid-19. However, … Read more
It’s not a game of Hungry Hippo: Outrage after woman caught throwing plastic bottle into animal’s mouth at a safari park in Indonesia A woman threw the plastic bottle out of her car during the safari in West Java Cyntia Atu, who was driving behind, alerted officials who rushed to the hippo The animal managed … Read more