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Schools, households, community groups and businesses up and down the country counted their plastic waste for a whole week in March to reveal the state of the UK's plastic waste problem. The Big Plastic Count 2024 is finished, and it's time to see the results.

The Big Plastic Count found that UK households discard an estimated 90 billion plastic pieces annually, with only 17% being recycled domestically.

Over 300 young people entered the competition to design a Greenpeace plastics campaign t-shirt. Here's the pick of the bunch.

Unilever has positioned itself as a responsible business with strong sustainability credentials. However, its continued inaction on plastic pollution makes it uniquely vulnerable to accusations of greenwashing and hypocrisy. With both Greenpeace and the CMA targeting the company over its environmental performance claims, the risks to shareholder value are growing.

Waste pickers all over the world are vital to reducing the impact of pollution on people living in poverty. Find out about the lives of waste pickers – and what the Global Plastics Treaty must do to support them.

Over 300 talented young people shared their Greenpeace t-shirt designs for this year's competition. Now it's time to pick the winners!

Nationwide, 100,000 participants, including nearly 13,000 school classes, are participating in The Big Plastic Count this week. It is a unique opportunity for households to gather evidence for the government about the extent of the UK’s plastic waste problem.

Banning single-use plastics like straws threatens disability rights and dignity for people with disabilities. Here’s how a plastic for access, or ‘Placcess’, system could help.

Nationwide, across all 650 parliamentary constituencies, 80,000 participants have already signed up for The Big Plastic Count 2024, including over 10,000 school classes. They have committed to counting a week’s plastic waste as part of the UK’s largest waste survey starting next week.