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A new collection of photographs show iconic British wildlife like otters, voles and kingfishers surrounded by plastic pollution in UK rivers

New ranking shows most retailers lagging behind on tackling plastic waste

London, Tuesday 13 July – 625 kilograms of plastic recycling has been dumped at Downing Street this morning, the same volume that the UK exports every 30 seconds. A figure of the Prime Minister in a Spitting Image-style mask was also at the scene where a…

Supermarkets are under pressure to reduce plastic, but last year they produced more of it than ever. It doesn’t have to be that way though. Greenpeace has released a plan showing how supermarkets can half their plastic packaging by 2025. Here’s what they need to do.

New campaign challenges supermarket giant to clean up its act on tackling plastic waste

Global brands with plastic footprint of over 5 million tonnes are still failing on plastic

Supermarkets still aren't doing enough to reduce plastic - but who's making the most progress? And how has the pandemic changed things? Find out where your supermarket ranks in the latest plastics league table.

  Seven out of top 10 UK supermarkets increased their plastic footprint  Waitrose and Morrisons top the league table while Asda and Aldi lag behind Retailers must reduce their use of single-use plastic by moving to packaging-free and reusable packaging solutions.   Supermarket plastic has risen to more…

Plastic pollution in the ocean is a growing problem, but where does it come from? Here are the plastic pollution facts you need to understand what’s happening.

Breaking news – the Prime Minister is telling the truth! Can it be?! Boris Johnson was all over the news last week after telling a room full of kids that recycling isn’t working. Some have said that he’s “losing the plot”… But believe it or not, we agree with…

Supermarkets contribute a minimum of 59 billion pieces of single-use plastic to our plastic pollution problem each year. We investigated which supermarkets are working towards reducing their impact and which ones are not.

While the world is rightly preoccupied with tackling coronavirus, our oceans and wildlife are *still* choking on plastic – and oil companies are pushing to produce more of the stuff than ever before. So what do we need to know about plastic in the age of Covid-19?

Over 51,000 people have participated in a government consultation and the results are clear: ban polluting single-use plastics now

A new Greenpeace report reveals the toxic legacy left by plastic waste shipped to Malaysia from countries like the UK, US, Germany and Italy

The government made great promises that reducing plastic at source would be central to new environmental regulations it was planning. But the proposals, published earlier this week, fell far short of much-needed targets to reduce single-use plastics.