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Plastic Bag Sales Have Dropped 90% Since 2015!
Since the 2015 introduction of the £0.05p charge in England, sales of plastic bags in the seven biggest retail chains have fallen by 90% The last year alone saw 490 million less single single-use plastic bags sold in Sainsbury’s, Tesco,...
In October 2012, 19 year old Aerospace Engineering student Boyan Slat created the Ocean Array Plan; a project that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic from the world’s oceans in just five years. Despite winning the Best Technical Design award...
Plastic Tea Bags Release 11.6 billion Microplastic Particles in Just One Cup
Tests have found that a single plastic tea bag sheds billions of microplastic particles into each cup. These tests, carried out by a Canadian Team, found that steeping a plastic tea bag releases around 11.6 billion microplastics - microscopic pieces...
September 2019 housed the biggest climate mobilisation in history, with a record 7.6 million people protesting in the streets - striking for climate action. Prior to these marches, young people have been walking out of school on Fridays to protest...
Contaminated Nuclear Water set to be Dumped in the Pacific Ocean
Following Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused hydrogen explosions in the Fukushima nuclear power plant resulting in 3 reactors melting down, the Japanese government have undertaken an extensive cleaning operation estimated to span over many decades. Over a million...
Plastic has reached the air & the Arctic
Plastic pollution has reached the Arctic, with particles of car tyres and the plastic found in paint now part of the composition of Arctic snow. Tiny plastic particles, called microplastics, sit in the dirty air above Europe & Asia. Currents...
Tents For Life! Martin Dorey Turns Tents Into Beach Clean Bags
As you may know, rubbish left at festivals, especially tents, is dumped on a monumental scale and is a huge problem. The vast mass of abandoned items and rubbish are collected and sent to landfill. Even festivals who declared themselves...
A not-so-micro step in Microplastics!
Fionn Ferreira, an Irish teenager from Ballydehob in west Cork has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Google Science Fair for his project that removed microplastics from water. In this prestigious annual global science competition open to students...
Hannah Smith works for Plastic@Bay, a community interest company tackling marine plastic pollution in the far north west of Scotland. She collects plastic waste washed onto Balnakeil beach with the high tide. The majority of her findings are waste remnants...