Hunting for solutions to plastic pollution: join in The Great Global Nurdle Hunt!
It’s time to put on our boots, trek to the nearest beach and dig around for plastic pellets in the fight against plastic pollution
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It’s time to put on our boots, trek to the nearest beach and dig around for plastic pellets in the fight against plastic pollution
Whether you like it or not, single-use plastic must go. Yes, it can be useful, it can be convenient, cheap and easy to produce – but it’s harming the planet and surely that’s reason enough to get rid of it?
As the British Government looks to tighten legislation, we call for a total phase-out of the single-use plastic bag and a significant price increase on the so-called ‘bag for life’..
The infiltration of plastics into our daily lives goes deep, making it hard to avoid this polluting material which will remain in our ecosystems for centuries to come.
Having been fascinated with the ocean and its inhabitants since childhood, diving was inevitably going to be a big part of my life.
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