Key Topics
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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.
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End of Pipe
#Incineration
Incineration
Burn it or bury it? Or…
The case against energy from waste
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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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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
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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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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Pellets
#Nurdles, #Campaign
The Great Global Nurdle Hunt 2025
Follow up on Nurdle Hunt! campaign 2025 asking people to join the movement to protect life below & beyond the waves.
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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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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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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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Waste Trade
#Legislation
Waste Trade
To end, or at least significantly reduce, EU plastic waste exports.
e.g. "15m pieces of clothing every week end up in Ghana.."
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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.
