Broken down further, England's beaches had the largest number of litter items per 100m, with 911... READ MORE›
Just 57 percent of all plastic bottles are collected for recycling, compared with levels of up to 90 percent in countries that have deposit return schemes... READ MORE›
A group of nurseries in southern England has banned the use of glitter among its 2,500 children to reduce the amount of microplastics entering the seas... READ MORE›
The amount of seabed litter has fluctuated over the years, but has been in long-term decline since a peak of 1,300 items per square kilometre in 2003... READ MORE›
Meanwhile Selfridges, which announced in 2015 that it would stop selling single-use plastic water bottles, has now gone a step further... READ MORE›
In England, just 57 percent of plastic bottles are recycled, mostly through streetside collection schemes... READ MORE›
The continuous stream of disposable plastic bottles running into our oceans has been growing alarmingly, said Greenpeace oceans campaigner Elena Polisano... READ MORE›
A million plastic bottles of water are bought around the world every minute - most of which end up in landfill or the oceans... READ MORE›
About 400 plastic bottles are sold every second in the UK but only half are recycled... READ MORE›
However, at that time, he did not find enough shocking visuals to change people's mindsets on waste... READ MORE›
The Scottish government is planning to introduce a deposit return scheme for bottles and cans... READ MORE›
Hurricane Harvey Best Buy apologises for selling 43 cases of water in Texas during tropical storm... READ MORE›
Hurricane Harvey Best Buy apologizes for 43 bottled water in Houston... READ MORE›
Plans are currently in place to produce Borough Market refillable bottles made from recycled plastic that can be purchased from stalls around the market... READ MORE›
As Davis identified, there is an alternative to plastic bottles of shampoo bars wrapped in paper or sold in tins... READ MORE›
There's very little thought of the environmental impact of plastic bottles in China... READ MORE›
Greenpeace said the big six drinks companies had to do more to increase the recycled content of their plastic bottles... READ MORE›
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