ocean waste

Simon Mellin: 'It's overwhelming to tackle sustainability holistically'

Recycling

Simon Mellin: 'It's overwhelming to tackle sustainability holistically'

Simon Mellin, CEO and founder of Modern Milkman, explores the need for more focus on 'return and reuse', why the EV transition is stalling for SMEs, and his pledge to prevent the creation of 30 million plastic bottles by 2024

clock 26 May 2023 • 5 min read

Biodiversity

'Earth's living systems are being compromised': World misses all UN biodiversity targets

Range of targets on deforestation, habitats, oceans, plastic pollution adopted a decade ago have all been missed or are heading in wrong direction, UN report warns

clock 16 September 2020 • 4 min read

Waste

Research: Orbiting satellites detect floating plastic litter 'islands'

clock 24 April 2020 • 2 min read

Waste

Marine plastic pollution costs the world up to $2.5bn a year, researchers find

Scientists warn that social and economic price of plastic waste to global society has been underestimated

clock 04 April 2019 • 2 min read

Policy

Environmental Audit Committee demands 'Paris Agreement for the Sea'

'Stop using our seas as a sewer', MPs urge government

clock 17 January 2019 • 2 min read

Supply chain

UK supermarkets selling 59 billion single use plastic items a year, research reveals

Greenpeace and Environmental Investigation Agency accuse supermarkets of acting too slowly to eradicate single use plastics

clock 15 November 2018 • 4 min read

Marketing

How 'Single-use' became the 2018 Word of the Year

Collins Dictionary names 'single-use' the 2018 Word of the Year in recognition of spike in public concern over plastic pollution

clock 07 November 2018 • 1 min read

Waste

SOS: Join the big businesses coming together to Save Our Seas

Dell's Louise Koch is looking for more businesses to join the tech giant's oceans plastics project

clock 02 February 2018 • 5 min read

Waste

Canada microbead ban enters into force

Legislation bars manufacture and import of all products containing microbeads

clock 05 January 2018 • 2 min read

Waste

What my week without plastic taught me

Green Party's Deputy Leader Amelia Womack reflects on a week of plastic-free living

clock 15 December 2017 • 3 min read