Key Topics
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PetroChem
PetroChemicals
Deep Pockets, Dirty Profits
How Banks and Investors Are Financing the Global Petrochemical Industry. Petrochemicals — including plastics, fertilizers, and synthetic chemicals — are a toxic investment for public health, the environment, and the economy.
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Pollution
#Pollution, PetroChemicals
Combatting Global Plastic Pollution - Feminist Perspectives
By 2025, more than 12 billion tonnes of plastic had been produced globally. Plastic pollution is not gender neutral. At oil and gas extraction sites, women and Black, Indigenous and People of Color lose their livelihoods...
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Pellets
#Nurdles, #Campaign
News Bulletin: Plastic Pellet Spill at Port of Tyne, South Shields
Releasing up to a billion plastic pellets contaminating the local area.
Fidra: "You can do something to prevent future pellet spills: Sign letter to the Secretary of State and this September join The Great Global Nurdle Hunt 2026"
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GPT
#GPT
Global Plastics Treaty – we’re still mopping the floor while the tap continues to run
"Today governments are meeting for an 'informal' negotiation on the #PlasticsTreaty but I won't be there"
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Corporate Accountability
#Greenwash
The Plastics Plot:
The Corporate Disinformation Tactics Behind Plastics Pollution
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Transition to Reuse
#Reuse
Reusables to avoid plastic waste: a brief guide
What exactly is behind reusable packaging? Why is it useful? Social injustice around plastic; Plastic-free reusable packaging. An introduction to reuse.
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GPT
#GPT
Bending the Curve - Pathways to Reduce Plastic Production
How global cooperation to reduce plastic production can help end the plastic crisis
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Transition to Reuse, DRS
#Reuse, #Recycling, #DRS
INTERPOOL: International reusable packaging system to break bottlenecks, not bottles
Interpool project was launched to boost reusable glass packaging systems, coordinated by Fair Resource Foundation.
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Transition to Reuse, DRS
#Reuse, #Recycling
We all know the recycling symbol, but how do you know if packaging is reusable?
This month a new universal reuse symbol was launched by PR3 | the Global Alliance to Advance Reuse to help identify packaging that is part of reuse systems. Reuse is where a packaging is cleaned and used multiple times before being later recycled or discarded.
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Waste Trade
#Legisltion, #Textiles, #Recycling
Implementing circular textiles
Just a dream, or future reality? Including 'DRAPED IN INJUSTICE— UNRAVELLING THE TEXTILE WASTE CRISIS IN AFRICA'
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Transition to Reuse
#Reuse
Life Before Plastic
Demonstrating Traditional Practices of Reuse in Africa
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Packaging
#PersonalChoices
From bottles to bars: easy swaps to cut plastic from your personal care routine
Almost all cosmetic packaging is thrown away. But with a bit of forethought, it’s not hard to keep both your skin and your conscience squeaky clean
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Pollution
Plastic is the hidden cost of the war in Iran
New York — Experts are warning that consumers will see a rise in prices for a variety of plastic consumer goods due to the war with Iran.
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MicroPlastics
#PersonalChoices, #Microplastics, #Health
Tiny Plastics, Big Problem:
The Hidden Risks of Plastic Pouches for Baby Food. Greenpeace International is excited to announce the launch of their new report, Tiny Plastics, Big Problem: The Hidden Risks of Plastic Pouches for Baby Food
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MicroPlastics
#Health
Don’t Call It a ‘Bombshell'!
The recent article in The Guardian sparked a debate about the discovery of microplastics throughout human body.
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CircularEconomy
#Legislation
An ambitious Circular Economy Growth Plan matters for the UK
Publication of Circular Economy Growth Plan is well overdue
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Packaging
#SingleUsePlastic
Join the 2026 Supermarket Audit! Deadline extended!
Ever felt frustrated by how much plastic you end up with after a trip to the supermarket? Join us for a supermarket audit so we can collectively demand change!
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PetroChem
#Climate, #Chemicals
Webinar - Curbing Petrochemicals: A Key Enabler to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
All about climate impacts of Plastic, Ammonia NO2 - important information to share
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MicroPlastics
#PersonalChoices, #Microplastics, #Microwave
Are we cooked?
The hidden health risks of plastic-packaged ready meals
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MicroPlastics
#Textiles, #Fashion, #PersonalChoices
Spinning Greenwash.
How the fashion industry’s shift to recycled polyester is worsening microplastic pollution: recycled polyester sheds more microfibres than virgin polyester.
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Packaging
About Packaging
The negotiations between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the EC about packaging law produced a result. Here is what the stakeholders agreed on - and the criticism of some of the results.
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Nappies
#PersonalChoices
Nappies
Nappies reuse, transition from single use plastics, nappies or early potty training To look at decreasing disposable nappy use through both early potty training and encouragement of reusable nappies, looking at the topic from both an environmental and a health lens.
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Transition to Reuse
#Reuse
Reuse is the answer but how do we get there?
If we get rid of single use plastic what’s going to take its place? How we transition to a reuse economy.
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End of Pipe
#ChemicalRecycling
What does Chemical Recycling mean?
The myths around Chemical Recycling: There is one good preliminary draft: either condense this one or write fresh perspective.
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End of Pipe
#Incineration
Incineration
Burn it or bury it? Or…
The case against energy from waste. Existing drafts need reviewing.
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Waste Trade
#Legislation
Waste Trade
To end, or at least significantly reduce, plastic waste exports.
e.g. "15m pieces of clothing every week end up in Ghana.."
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Climate
#Climate, #Pollution, #AI
Why Generative AI is not so smart
Webinar: Al Guidlines for BreakFreefromPlastic
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PFAS
#ChemicalRecycling
Forever Chemicals
PFAs. Remove problematic chemicals from plastics. How do we avoid forever chemicals; what they are doing to our bodies
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PetroChem
#Climate, #Pollution
How Russian fuel feeds the world of plastic
a study of the correlation between fossil fuels and plastic
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MicroPlastics
#Butts, #Campaign, #Legislation, #PersonalChoices, #Greenwash, #Pollution
Is legislation on the tobacco industry the butt of the joke?
Raising awareness about the largest form of plastic pollution worldwide.
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Ocean
#Microplastics, #Climate
Plastic and the Ocean
It is not uncommon to see images or videos online of turtles trapped in plastic six-pack rings or with plastic straws stuck up their nose; however, whilst this is terribly damaging, it is not the only threat to marine life caused by plastic pollution.
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MicroPlastics
#Textiles, #Fashion, #PersonalChoices
How our clothing choice affects health
The textile industry is the third-largest consumer of plastic, just behind packaging and construction. A recent report reveals that some fashion brands now use synthetic fibres in 70-80% of their clothing, feeding this cycle of pollution.
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Chemicals & Plastics
#EndofPipe, #Chemicals, #Recycling
Plastic bottles and health
The toxic effect of plastic throughout its life cycle
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Events
#Parliament, #Campaign, #Chemicals, #Microplastics
Parliament: Engagement with MPs
Ongoing Project to liaise with All Party Parliamentary Groups & set up an event involving MPs in testing for Microplastics in their blood. We need a lead on this.
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Children&YoungPeople
#PersonalChoices
Children & Young people
Making a difference and inspiring others. What young people are doing about plastic. Outreach to schools and colleges.
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ST
#Fundraising
Fundraising
A fundraising strategy to enable us to put on screenings and other events. Scarab Trust project.
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Chemicals & Plastics
#Health, #Chemicals, #Microplastics
How plastic can directly affect living health
Plastics are responsible for wide-ranging health impacts including cancers, lung disease, and birth defects across their entire life cycle – from extraction for manufacturing to dumping into landfill and oceans
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Menstrual items
#Health
Menstrual Items
Raising awareness about period poverty and period taboo, as well as the environmental, health and societal impacts of single-use plastic based menstrual products and its aggressive misogynistic marketing perpetuating the stigma.
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End of Pipe
#Campaign, #Incineration
Make your voice count on incineration policy
Short blog needed to promote this campaign asking local MPs to press the Government to update zero waste policies without delay halving residual waste.
