Exclusive: government accused of hypocrisy as documents show opposition to urban waste plan A target to recycle 65% of urban waste by 2035 was agreed by the European council and parliament in December and now awaits a vote of approval by member states. But the UK’s opposition is revealed in a record of a subsequent briefing […]
MPs call for “latte levy” on coffee cups The Environmental Audit Committee calls on the Government to introduce a 25p latte levy on disposable coffee cups and for all coffee cups to be recycled by 2023. Read the interactive report summary Read the report summary Read the conclusions and recommendations Read the full report: Disposable […]
A four-point plan for tackling plastic waste has been outlined by the Environment Secretary Michael Gove. He told BBC News – Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst – that he wants to reduce the amount of plastic used in the UK, and to make it simpler for people to recycle. Environmentalists fear Mr Gove will be […]
Communications and strategy challenges of the plastics Issue – Chris Rose Any campaigns taking on the plastic crisis face some significant communications and strategy challenges. These include getting rid of the L-word, the visual ‘less is more’ problem (debris > microplastic), the communications legacy effect and potential motivational dead-ends of beach clean-ups, and the inability […]
Chris Rose in a detailed report highlights how the plastics industry have side tracked this issue and why we now have problem on this scale. THE most thoughtful report on the plastics pollution problem to date. Why We Suddenly Have A Plastics Crisis The UN has acknowledged that we have a ‘plastics crisis’ and on December […]
Nations have agreed that the world needs to completely stop plastic waste from entering the oceans. Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst, Nairobi The UN resolution, which is set to be sealed tomorrow, has no timetable and is not legally binding. But ministers at an environment summit in Kenya believe it will set the course for […]
Bob Earll It has been a remarkable week for the campaign against single use plastics and the need for deposit return schemes [see plastic bottle tracker PBT] On Dec 1st the Daily Mail carried in its front page article news that further supermarkets, M&S and Waitrose are thinking of breaking rank with the British Retail […]
In 2000 Allan Williams, David Tudor and I did some research on a monitoring regime for marine litter for the MCA. Our worst grade in some harbours and in the Clyde was where the density of litter and other waste was a direct health risk and beyond counting, huge concentrations. Public health and treatment just […]