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9 ways to reduce your plastic use at Christmas

It’s December, the season of twinkling lights, wrapping up warm and eating your own body weight in chocolate. But it’s also the time of year when plastic packaging goes into overdrive. Even if you manage to avoid buying plastic presents, supermarkets and other retailers bombard us with plastic… Read More

Alice Hunter - 10th December 2018

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Is Volkswagen’s plan to drop diesel and petrol cars a good one?

The announcement Earlier this week, Volkswagen announced a plan to get out of the business of fossil fuel cars and to go 100% electric. They’ll launch their final generation of fossil fuel cars in 2026 and plan to stop selling them all together by 2040. VW is the first… Read More

Philip Evans - 6th December 2018

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Festive #PointlessPlastic

Nets of satsumas, sprouts bagged in plastic and Christmas puddings wrapped in shiny plastic layers – as the festive season approaches, our supermarket shelves start to groan with even more excessive plastic packaging than usual. Most of us like to indulge in festive treats at this… Read More

Alice Hunter - 6th December 2018

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Why I’ve dedicated my life to protecting the rainforests

“I feel like a new person, reborn, when I am in the forest,” Annisa Rahmawati smiles. While Annisa finds peace and a sense of purpose among the trees, she also works every day to protect huge swathes of forest in her homeland, where the sound of bulldozers is threatening to drown out the sound of… Read More

Annisa Rahmawati - 26th November 2018

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Black plastic: what’s the problem?

Black plastic is one of the most problematic forms of plastic you can find on supermarket shelves – but what makes this microwave meal tray favourite so bad? Any plastic food packaging that’s designed to be used once and then thrown away is not good news… Read More

Alice Hunter - 23rd November 2018

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