Tag: plastic

Having been fascinated with the ocean and its inhabitants since childhood, diving was inevitably going to be a big part of my life.

Today is World Oceans Day and the theme for this year’s observation is ‘Preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean’ – a call to action that couldn’t be more pressing

Some coastal communities view whales as the guardians of the ocean, a special value attached to the marine giants which is not misplaced. Whales provide incredible services for the ocean and coastal communities, playing a role deemed so important that some scientists have coined them “ecosystem engineers”

Two-thirds of the globe lie under water and the future of our planet is inexorably tied to what happens at sea. With today’s UN World Environment Day themed around Beat Plastic Pollution, it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on why we need a healthy ocean

The Environmental Investigation Agency was born out of a ground-breaking whaling investigation and, almost three-and-a-half decades later, our Ocean work remains a central pillar of what we do

The Co-op is a pioneer on many ethical issues, from modern slavery to animal welfare, but in recent months its leadership on plastics has been overtaken by bold new targets adopted by supermarket rival Iceland, which has vowed to remove plastic packaging from all of its own-label products by 2023