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How did your supermarket score in our new plastic league table?

With company plastic packaging pledges popping up all over the shop since Blue Planet 2, we wanted to cut through the confusion by ranking UK supermarkets in a plastic league table. So back in May we partnered with the Environmental Investigation Agency… Read More

Elena Polisano - 15th November 2018

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The UK’s Antarctic Ocean Petition Hand-In : Why your support means so much

Our Antarctic Ambassador, X-Files and The Fall actress Gillian Anderson joined Greenpeace UK on the 9th October to deliver our petition to the UK Foreign Office to Protect the Antarctic. The decision on whether to establish an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary was made at the Antarctic Ocean Commission (CCAMLR)… Read More

Agasty Baylon Yogaratnam - 14th November 2018

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In pictures: orangutans threatened by deforestation linked to the makers of Oreo

Palm oil suppliers to Mondelēz, one of the world’s biggest brands, known for it’s products like Cadbury chocolate bars, Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers have destroyed 25,000 hectares of orangutan habitat in Indonesia in just two years (2015 – 2017). Mondelēz buys much of it’s dirty palm oil from the… Read More

Angela Glienicke - 14th November 2018

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Now that ‘single use’ is the word of the year, plastic’s days are numbered

The term ‘single-use’ has become has become synonymous with plastic in the past few years, as evidence gathered by scientists and campaigners has gradually revealed how single use plastic drinks bottles, bags and food wrappers are causing a plastic pollution pandemic. That single-use is the… Read More

Louise Edge - 8th November 2018

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Governments have failed to protect the Antarctic – but this isn’t over

Over the last two weeks, a group of governments met in Hobart, Australia, to negotiate a new Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. They failed. Although 22 governments supported the sanctuary, negotiators from Russia, China and Norway stopped it from going ahead. The Russian and Chinese… Read More

Mal Chadwick - 2nd November 2018

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