plastic
"Even on a home compost heap, these products may not biodegrade."
From subscription meal kits to wonky veg boxes to healthy frozen vegan microwave meals, smaller, niche businesses are changing behaviours faster than any corporate could.
Join the Towpath Taskforce to clean our 'plastics highways'.
Malaysia will send back some 3,000 metric tonnes of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as the US, UK, Canada and Australia. It comes as a move to avoid becoming a dumping ground for rich nations. Malaysia became the world's main destination for plastic waste after China banned its import last year, disrupting the flow of more than seven million tonnes of trash.
Don't worry – it won't stop you from recycling it ♻️
Plastic straws, cotton buds and drink stirrers are to be banned in the UK. The hope is that straw usage will reduce from 4.7 billion to only 44 million per year.
And it's actually more durable than regular road surfacing.
The move will save 156 tonnes of plastic a year, the supermarket says.
When retired naval officer Victor Vescovo made a record-breaking 10,928 m submarine dive to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, he probably wasn’t expecting to come across man-made litter...but he did. Just a few days after the United Nations has issued a damning report of the state of our planet, we take a look at other unlikely places where we’ve managed to leave a damaging trace.