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A £20m fund to explore innovations around the way we manufacture and use plastic was announced this week by the science minister Sam Gyimah

We asked for your suggestions: how can people avoid or reduce their plastic consumption? Here are 20 of our favourites tips

From national and global organisations to shops, brands and even a band – awareness is growing that plastic is not fantastic. We round up 10 that are taking action

We meet the 'mylk man', who delivers nut-based milks to people's doors – and whose business is strictly free from plastic bottles

Surfer and inventor Kevin Kamala founded his social enterprise in response to the alarming amount of plastic rubbish washing up on Bali's shoreline

Parliament is under pressure to curb its plastic consumption after a new website is launched, allowing members of the public to contact their local MP. Its aim is to discourage politicians from [...]

Nicola Eckersley and her husband, former professional footballer Richard Eckersley, run Earth.Food.Love, a zero-waste shop that stocks only ethical goods and where packaging is banned

Richard Eckersley, along with his wife Nicola, runs the UK’s first dedicated zero-waste shop. Before launching Earth.Food.Love he played football for Manchester United. What prompted the career switch?

The new issue of Positive News magazine, out today, features a cover story about the people who are turning around society’s addiction to plastic. Editor Lucy Purdy introduces the issue and asks: [...]

An estimated 30 per cent drop in the number of plastic bags littering seabeds around Britain has been connected to the introduction of charges for plastic bags across Europe

The manufacturing ban means the tiny beads, which are harmful to marine life, can no longer be used in cosmetics and personal care products

UK environment and animal welfare charities are calling on businesses, governments and individuals to try harder to reduce waste – in particular plastic – this Christmas

Plastic microbeads used by the cosmetics industry are to be banned by the UK government in an effort to eliminate the harmful impact they have on both marine ecosystems and human health

Around 8m tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean each year. How can we clean up our seas?

From architecture to healthcare; we look at new ways in which 3D printing is helping society to progress

Feeling excluded from traditional routes of marine protection, a new wave of young activists with an entrepreneurial spirit are going it alone and taking the future of the oceans into their own hands

A London-based surf brand wants to tackle increasing levels of plastic waste along the UK coastline by transforming it into beachwear

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a ‘self-healing’ plastic that could one day allow objects from cracked mobile phone screens to meteor-battered space probes to [...]

Trashcatchers Carnival draws crowds in Tooting, helping unite community behind Transition message

Network Rail's recycling of waste plastic into replacement railwaysleepers will reduce landfill and help replace the worn wooden ones.