We are grateful for the additional contributions to this blog from Solomon Njoroge In December, I travelled to Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite outside the capital Nairobi with colleagues from EIA. We were there with a specific purpose – to understand what synthetic textile exports look like at the end of their journey. We did not […]
Would you feel comfortable feeding your family with food wrapped in plastic made from uncontrolled waste streams? Do we really want children’s toys or baby bottles made from recycled plastic whose chemical history cannot be reliably traced and so might contain ‘forever chemicals’ and other hazardous additives? These are not abstract questions. In the coming […]
The UK produces the world’s second highest amount of plastic waste per person, with an estimated 1.7 billion items of plastic discarded weekly – averaging almost 90 billion items each year. More than half of this plastic waste is incinerated, a volume which rose from 46 per cent in 2022 to 58 per cent in […]
Having volunteered with the EIA for a couple months, I soon realised how diverse its fields of work are and the myriad backgrounds and experiences of its campaigners and staff
As major international brands pledge to support a global convention on plastic pollution, EIA Senior Ocean Campaigner Christina Dixon discusses the case for action now
With the 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) underway in Paris, our Climate Campaigner, Adela Putinelu, lays out daily behavioural changes that can make a difference including dietary change, electricity consumption, checking the energy investments of your bank, reusing and recycling and using your consumer power.