Cultivating Plastic Part 4: Caution with regards to the adoption of potential agriplastic alternatives
As awareness of the issues brought about by agriplastic use are growing, so too is the search for alternative products or methods.
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Cultivating Plastic Part 3: Agriplastic waste mismanagement and criminality
British farms produce 135,500 tonnes of soil-contaminated agricultural plastic waste each year – roughly equivalent in weight to 900 adult blue whales.
Cultivating Plastic Part 2: Environmental and human health harm caused by agriplastics
Agriplastics are used widely in agriculture to grow and store produce, but are also responsible for widespread pollution, from their manufacture and use to mismanagement at the end of their useful life.
Cultivating Plastic Part 1: Agriplastics and the UK grocery retail supply chain
The use of plastics in agriculture (commonly known as ‘agriplastics’) only accounts for 3.5 per cent of annual global plastic usage. However, their design, use and the pollution they cause are devastating and extend far beyond farmland.
Plastic Waste Power Play: The offshoring and recycling displacement involved in trying to recycle EU plastic waste
Since records began in the late 1980s, over a quarter of a billion tonnes of plastic waste has been traded globally.
Acts of Defiance: How US traders are ignoring sanctions to import conflict teak from Myanmar
In February 2021, Myanmar’s democratically elected ruling party, the National League for Democracy, was overthrown by the Myanmar military in a coup d’état. In the months since the coup, the people of Myanmar (formerly Burma) have been subjected to a continued escalation of conflict and brutal human rights atrocities. To maintain its illegal regime and […]