Late in 2018 CMS & MCS collaborated on a questionnaire to assess what you – the readers of CMS News – are doing to tackle plastic pollution. The preliminary survey results from 590 of you showed that you were very aware and taking a wide range of actions to try and reduce plastics pollution. City to Sea have just announced another list of things to do … it would be a useful checklist. One thing to add to this is to respond to the Government’s latest consultations on waste, including many key issues to do with plastics.

12 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO TACKLE PLASTIC POLLUTION AT SOURCE, TODAY.

Lightweight, virtually indestructible and cheap to produce – plastic has been a miracle material across countless industries. The downside of course, as we are all acutely aware, is that far too much of it that has become waste! In fact, by 2015 humans had produced 6.3 billon tons of plastic waste and just 9% of it was recycled globally.  So what can you do? Here are our top 12 tips for preventing plastic pollution at source. Start small and work your way through the list – take your time, have fun, experiment and make changes that last!  Click here to read more