A major pollution incident has occurred along the UK’s East Sussex coast, where millions of plastic biobeads have washed up on the shoreline at Camber Sands and neighbouring beaches following a failure at Southern Water’s Eastbourne wastewater treatment works. The company has admitted the spill was caused by a screening‐filter failure during heavy rainfall, which […]
EIA and 53 environmental and civil society organisations from around the world have written to the UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to urge the Government to commit to a full and immediate ban on all UK plastic waste exports. The joint letter to Emma Reynolds MP – sent ahead of […]
The final round of talks to hammer out the detail of a Global Plastics Treaty opened in Geneva in early August – and almost two weeks later collapsed with no agreement at all, due in large part to the blocking tactics employed by a handful of petrostates and a multitude of lobbyists working to safeguard […]
UN negotiators in Geneva have today (15 August) concluded more than three years of talks by failing to reach agreement on a Global Plastics Treaty. Delegates from around the world met for almost two weeks in Geneva to conclude negotiations on a new Global Plastics Treaty. But despite a large majority of countries aligned on […]
The final round of talks in pursuit of a Global Plastics Treaty is due to get under way in Geneva shortly and there’s everything still to play for. But as ambitious countries and civil society organisations such as EIA pursue a robust agreement to meaningfully tackle the crisis, corporate fossil fuel interests seek instead to […]
More than two-thirds of UK adults believe those producing or selling plastic products and packaging should bear the bulk of responsibility for tackling plastic pollution in the UK, according to a new survey for EIA. With the final round of UN talks in pursuit of a Global Plastics Treaty due to begin in Geneva next […]