“Every September thousands of people take to the beach all over the UK to take part in the Great British Beach Clean.” The Great British Clean is a week-long citizen science event, where hundreds of beach cleans take place around the UK. The litter data collated by volunteers drives the Marine Conservation Society’s conservation work…
Why Recycling Plastic Bottles IS NOT the answer Since you started reading this, over 700 kilograms of plastic have already polluted our oceans. The more plastic we make, the more ends up in our forests, oceans and even our stomachs. We’ve been fooled by plastic’s ‘collection’, as this doesn’t always guarantee its recycling. So, this Global…
It’s 2021, and whether or not you fully understand all the reasons why, it’s likely you know single-use plastics are bad for the planet. In our industry, this statement generally applies to the bottles the water is packaged in, but it also applies to secondary packaging and shipping materials among other things (more on that…
229 million Americans have access to a curbside recycling program, that is nearly 75% of all households in the US. Of those 229 million the overwhelming majority participate in their curbside recycling program. In most municipalities this means adding their plastic bottles, cardboard boxes and aluminum cans into the blue bin and placing it…
