This week the UK government announced a consultation on introducing a tax on single-use plastics, as part of its pledge to reduce plastic waste. But earlier this month ministers stepped back from plans to introduce a charge for non-recyclable coffee cups - putting the government’s war on plastic and promise of a Green Brexit under scrutiny. JOSEPH DUTTON investigates
… plan Joseph Dutton | 15th March 2018 News UK Plastic Coffee Brexit Recycling Environment Michael Gove EU plastic-ocean-cut.jpg This week the UK … on introducing a tax on single-use plastics, as part of its pledge to reduce …
MPs say the government should review systems where customers can reuse and refill plastic containers.
… Plastic crisis requires 'fundamental shift' … | 12th September 2019 News MPs Parliament Plastics Pollution Environment Food And Rural Affairs Committee plastic bags.jpg MPs say the government should …
It’s fair to say that we have our share of robust discussions in this office. Opinions get aired, fingers get pointed, occasionally voices get raised. It’s all in a good cause. Setting the world to rights isn’t always a civilised tea party.
… | 1st June 2008 Comment Activism Greenwash Plastic Bags Protest UK US War Economics … ‘Why isn’t the Ecologist more vocal about the plastic bag issue?’ I was asked recently. … have been banging away about the stupidity of plastic bags – plastic everything, really – …
Is Joaquin Phoenix the voice for farmed animals everywhere right now?
… Living Celebrity Endorsement Animal Rights Plastic Photo Is Joaquin Phoenix the voice for … the UK population now uses fewer disposable plastics. The world is waking up to the truth. With each passing year plastic pollution is plummeting and conscious …
Many companies have felt the pressure over the past few years to go green - but some US corporations have made it their mission to help our planet and are making huge changes to our world.
… impact the Earth. People throw away cans, plastics and waste that end up in agricultural … the world produce over 10 million tons of plastic that end up in the ocean. It harms … chain. 4Ocean aims to stop how much harm that plastic does. It forms teams of people …
Consumers are concerned about the environmental impact of meat - but reaching for fish as a 'lower emissions' alternative is an environmental catastrophe.
… Food Easter Marine Conservation Oceans Plastic Pollution Fishing Industry Sustainable … represents the most serious form of marine plastic pollution, with more than 640,000 tons …
There's no doubt that one of the losers in this year's UK election was the environment and that there's clearly been a failure not just in politics, which is failing in so many ways, but also in environmental communication - a failure to reach people's hearts and minds with the urgent need for change, writes NATALIE BENNETT
… and glyphosate, a tidal wave of plastic pollution - not to mention the bigger, …
The once bustling Bagmati river has become the focal point of Nepal’s struggle to bring modernity to this once isolated region. And the environment is struggling to survive, writes Joseph Mayton.
… troll the banks of the river, picking up plastic bags and rubbish that has found its …
Technology is constructive but also hugely destructive. It’s high time that we begin to think seriously – and innovatively – about tempering its damaging effects
… like the combustion engine, super-tankers, plastic products, splitting the atom, deep …
Dr Seuss’s The Lorax is showing at the Old Vic theatre in London until Sunday. HARRIET GRIFFEY, cultural editor of The Ecologist describes it as a 'entertaining and heart-warming children’s musical' that speaks to current environmental issues.
… Good Energy, recycling all paper, glass, plastic and other items, using VegWare for any …
If you split post-operative patients into two groups, giving one a view of trees and the other a view of a brick wall, the group that was exposed to the trees will need fewer painkillers, develop fewer complications and will
check themselves out of hospital more quickly than the group with the urban view. Isn't it time to accept that some of the distress we currently feel is tied to the world beyond the consulting room, to this planet of ours that's
become so stripped and bare?
… paper to see a photo of a snake choking on plastic, or a gull with a misshapen beak - but …
Who said these words: ‘The environmental movement is a growing force in civil society, searching for a home in mainstream politics. The party that succeeds will be the natural party of government’? It wasn’t George Monbiot, Tony Juniper or Jonathon Porritt. It was David Miliband, in December 2006.
… that are getting organised and going plastic bag-free, preparing for the end of oil …
It’s the battle of the century. In one corner, the Economy – big, bloated, greedy and growing. In the other, the planet Earth – fragile, finite and fighting back.
… requires products that create new ones. Plastic is the ideal product for economics …
Religious values are often consistent with conservation efforts. So it’s not surprising that a variety of religious organisations and conservationists are working together to help mitigate the devastating effects of global climate change, writes CURTIS ABRAHAM
… In addition, all Khoryug institutions are plastic-free and segregate waste for …