Packaging with principles: the compostable plastic bag
Surfer and inventor Kevin Kamala founded his social enterprise in response to the alarming amount of plastic rubbish washing up on Bali's shoreline
The surfers calling on MPs to make parliament plastic-free
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 [...]
Zero heroes: the couple behind the UK’s first zero-waste shop
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
From Manchester United footballer to zero-waste shopkeeper
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?
People v plastic: new issue of Positive News magazine reports on the zero-waste pioneers
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: [...]
Drop in plastic bags in Britain’s seas linked to 5p charge
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
Ban on plastic microbeads comes into force in the UK
The manufacturing ban means the tiny beads, which are harmful to marine life, can no longer be used in cosmetics and personal care products
Green groups unite against ‘plague’ of Christmas rubbish
UK environment and animal welfare charities are calling on businesses, governments and individuals to try harder to reduce waste – in particular plastic – this Christmas
UK to introduce ‘world’s strongest’ ban on plastic microbeads
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
5 possible solutions to ocean plastics
Around 8m tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean each year. How can we clean up our seas?
Three good things: 3D printing
From architecture to healthcare; we look at new ways in which 3D printing is helping society to progress
Meet the young ocean advocates aiming to change marine conservation for the better
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
Turning plastic bottles into boardshorts
A London-based surf brand wants to tackle increasing levels of plastic waste along the UK coastline by transforming it into beachwear
Scientists create ‘self-healing’ plastic
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 [...]
Celebrating a Load of Rubbish
Trashcatchers Carnival draws crowds in Tooting, helping unite community behind Transition message
Not Sleeping on the Job
Network Rail's recycling of waste plastic into replacement railwaysleepers will reduce landfill and help replace the worn wooden ones.
Text Your Waste Away
Recycle-more, Valpak's useful recycling information website, has recently launched a brand new text service.
Movement to Ban Plastic
China and Australia are the very latest countries to follow the growing global trend for banning plastic bags.
Guerilla Bag Makers
When English teacher, Caroline Morsman, discovered the remains of adead seabird, choked by a plastic bag, it motivated her to reach forher needle and thread. Every month, a group of friends now [...]
