PLASTIC FACT!
People Declare
a Waste Emergency
While the government and industry delay, distract and engage in false solutions around plastic waste, people are standing up to declare a waste emergency.
In the UK we bear a large share of responsibility for worldwide waste, with a huge polymers industry and the second highest plastics consumption per capita in the world. Plastics and chemicals are entering our soils, our waterways and our bodies. We need action on an emergency footing.
In the UK we bear a large share of responsibility for worldwide waste, with a huge polymers industry and the second highest plastics consumption per capita in the world. Plastics and chemicals are entering our soils, our waterways and our bodies. We need action on an emergency footing.
PLASTIC
FACT!
FACT!
ONLY 9% OF ALL THE PLASTIC EVER PRODUCED HAS BEEN RECYCLED
We MADE COKE
TRUCK OFF!
World's top plastics polluter Coca-Cola sponsored COP this year, saying: “Through the COP27 partnership, the Coca-Cola system aims to support collective action against climate change.”
We say: It's time to end this hypocrisy. Hopefully we can stop not only their ecocidal festive truck tour, but eventually consign this whole sorry addiction to plastic to the wastebin of history.
We say: It's time to end this hypocrisy. Hopefully we can stop not only their ecocidal festive truck tour, but eventually consign this whole sorry addiction to plastic to the wastebin of history.
PLASTIC FACT!
PLASTIC
FACT!
FACT!
THE UK EXPORTS 60% OF ITS PLASTIC PACKAGING WASTE
We FOUGHT... AND WE WON
Owned by Coca-Cola, the world's top plastic polluter, Innocent are exponents of "mate-washing" and "whackaging": both clever ways to cloak their corporate pollution in a friendly guise, designed to win followers on social media. But their last TV ad was a greenwashing step too far for us...
PLASTIC FACT!
PLASTIC
FACT!
FACT!
BY 2030 EMMISSIONS FROM PLASTIC PRODUCTION WILL OVERTAKE THOSE FROM COAL
TOXIC TURF
Just when global populations woke up to the fact that pointless plastic packaging was poisoning our planet, a new outlet for totally unecessary plastic started to appear: artificial turf. Hailed by those who hate muddy gardens as an answer, we say the toxic content of plastic versus mud is reason enough for a ban. But there are other reasons why we need to say goodbye to toxic turf...
PLASTIC FACT!
