Despite the world slowly waking up to the plastic pollution crisis in our oceans and food chains, if we keep on as we are then we’re on course to actually quadruple plastic production by 2050
The supermarket chain Morrisons has announced it is starting trials with a view to replacing plastic ‘bags for life’ with strong paper bags
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With the legal responsibility to protect the natural environment of England, The Environment Agency could be doing a lot more to tackle the second largest source of marine microplastic pollution – plastic pellets. Pellets are the raw material of the entire plastics industry and are melted and moulded into every plastic product in existence. These […]
Plastic pollution is one of the greatest anthropogenic threats our planet faces and protection of the marine environment is a common concern of humankind.
Of all the sea-based sources of marine plastic pollution, the most common, and also the most harmful, is lost and discarded fishing gear, also referred to as ‘ghost gear’