Read about the Government scheme here MCS: Single use carrier bag charge in England – great news for our oceans but a whole bag full of confusion for shoppers, says UK marine charity. Successful schemes in other parts of UK not replicated in England. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS), the UK’s leading marine charity, says […]
Litter – Scathing Assessment – Communities and Local Government Committee Report CLG House of Commons Committee ‘We take no satisfaction in it but the evidence of our own eyes, the photographs tweeted to us, and the evidence we took during this inquiry lead us to the conclusion that England is a litter-ridden country compared […]
Recently there have been a number of reports and papers on the sheer scale of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans http://cmscoms.com/?p=2789 ; recently more work has been published including: Plastic waste from land to sea – A paper in Science estimating levels in the world oceans http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768.abstract Dr Lucy Woodhall, was the lead author […]