ocean plastic

'Nice wake up call': Countries back ambitious treaty to end plastic pollution

Policy

'Nice wake up call': Countries back ambitious treaty to end plastic pollution

Ocean Conference statement supported by 95 nations calls for treaty based on global targets, robust reporting, and fresh funding to tackle plastic pollution

clock 11 June 2025 • 5 min read
Study: Economic damage from ocean plastic could reach $434bn by 2050

Waste

Study: Economic damage from ocean plastic could reach $434bn by 2050

Estimated $2.5tr of ocean-based economic activity under 'unprecedented threat' from pollution and plastic waste, report warns

clock 31 July 2024 • 3 min read
'Ghost nets': UK underwater technology aims to tackle ocean pollution threat

Technology

'Ghost nets': UK underwater technology aims to tackle ocean pollution threat

Succorfish completes successful trial of underwater acoustic technology that aims to help catch lost fishing nets

clock 01 July 2024 • 3 min read
Grind's Better Coffee Foundation: How to brew up a transparent ocean plastic recovery plan

Waste

Grind's Better Coffee Foundation: How to brew up a transparent ocean plastic recovery plan

Approaching six months on from the launch of cult coffee brand Grind's Better Coffee Foundation, BusinessGreen Intelligence looks back on how the brand created an independent vehicle for its sustainability vision

clock 24 August 2023 • 10 min read
Plastic Bank: Over 200 firms help prevent two billion plastic bottles from polluting oceans

Supplier

Plastic Bank: Over 200 firms help prevent two billion plastic bottles from polluting oceans

Social enterprise claims it was worked with 30,000 collectors to reintegrate plastic back into manufacturing supply chains

clock 25 January 2022 • 2 min read

Recycling

World Economic Forum: Targeting 10 per cent plastics reuse could halve ocean plastic waste

Shifting away from single-use towards reuse models for plastic would drastically reduce plastic waste, report by the think tank finds

clock 28 July 2021 • 3 min read

Waste

How can governments turn the tide of plastic pollution post-pandemic?

As economies emerge from Covid-19, it is crucial governments set their sights on rapid action to curb plastic pollution worldwide, a new UNEP and WRI report implores

clock 06 April 2021 • 6 min read

Policy

Female green innovators set to receive government backing through Women in Innovation programme

Forty female entrepreneurs are each to a receive £50,000 funding boost, as wave of awards from the Women in Innovation programme is timed to coincide with International Women's Day

clock 08 March 2021 • 2 min read

Waste

Is laundry fuelling the marine plastics crisis?

A new study from Canadian non-profit Ocean Wise has shown that synthetic fibres, many released from clothing and textiles during domestic laundry, make up a large proportion of microplastics in the Arctic Ocean

clock 13 January 2021 • 4 min read

Waste

'Horrific': Iceland details full scale of plastic packaging sold in its stores

Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis

clock 17 September 2020 • 5 min read