Plastic Pollution

Summer clean ups to tackle plastic pollution will combining free wellbeing activities and citizen science.

Hackathon with offer young people the opportunity to create real-life solutions to the plastic crisis.

The journey to extreme depths of the Mariana Trench encountered new species of sea creatures - as well as a plastic bag and sweet wrappers.

New regulations prohibit the sale of plastic bottles at events held on city-owned property in San Francisco.

Campaign aims to mobilize Brazilian society against the threat posed by plastic to the seas.

Why do some environmental issues appeal to the popular imagination more than others?

Making a serious difference to plastic pollution is only possible by tackling over-consumption.

Plastics will inflict widespread damage across Europe within the century if action is not taken.

Join Ella in reducing plastic waste and tackling period poverty this December.

Ethical menstrual products are reliable, non-toxic and don't cost the earth.

Campaigners argue for local legislation to ban filtered cigarettes.

Environmental groups cautiously welcome action on plastic waste - which does not go far enough.

No More Styrofoam presents the WooBox - a new alternative to the use of Styrofoam in food transportation - and a Serbian project that is supported by a crowdfunding campaign that launches today (1st June 2017). LAURA BRIGGS reports

Alanna Smith aka the UK blogger Ecowildchild will be going plastic-free from 1st June as part of the annual Marine Conservation Society (MSC) campaign to raise awareness of the devastating impact single-use plastics are having on the environment. This is her invitiation to YOU to join her in this endeavour...

Plastic Pollution Coalition is a new campaign calling for an outright ban on single-use plastic products. Will you support them?