It’s impossible to know exactly how many plastic bags are in the ocean. All we can do is piece different bits of data to get a very rough estimate. According to Statista, total global plastic production was around 348 million metric tonnes in 2017 (source). Since we couldn’t find an updated figure for 2019, let’s …
Plastic waste is a hot topic at the moment, and many of us are looking to reduce the amount of plastic we use. But if we can just recycle all the plastic that has been produced up to now, what’s the problem? Well, it turns out that plastic recycling is actually a bit of a …
Every year, tonnes of plastic waste gets sent to landfill or ends up in the oceans. This is having a devastating effect on the natural environment, poisoning the soil, polluting the air and killing marine wildlife. In the last few years, awareness of this problem has grown a lot, and now many of us are …
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Nearly every one of us will have a kitchen sponge at home that we use for washing dishes and cleaning our dirty kitchen surfaces, but how often do we throw away our used kitchen sponges? Our kitchen sponges are home to lots of bacteria, and researchers have found that “not only are sponges dirtier than …
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Choose a refillable cleaning product and you can significantly reduce the amount of single-use plastic your household uses and fight back against the ever-growing problem of plastic pollution. Unlike other plastics, the packaging from cleaning products is among the least likely to be recycled in the UK. Even if it does make its way into …
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I love coffee, don’t you? I love that slightly caramelised, nutty and warming scent that fills my kitchen as it gently bubbles on the stove. I love lifting the lid of my reusable coffee cup and taking a deep long inhale of its rich goodness. I love the rich and slightly bitter flavour as it …
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Shaving is a regular part of many people’s grooming routines, but the millions of disposable razors and blades ending up in landfill every year could be as damaging to our environment as plastic bags and straws. Disposable plastic razors have been popular since the 1970s, but because they’re made from a complex combination of different …
Most people don’t realise that chewing gum contains plastic. But we’re not talking about the wrapper or the fancy plastic packaging that many brands use these days. We’re talking about the chewing gum itself. So, what do we need to know about the plastic in chewing gum? Is it adding to the global plastic pollution …
Plastic pollution is one of the fastest growing problems on our planet. Humans have produced huge amounts of plastic over the last 60-70 years, and because plastic is made to be durable and last a long time, it will potentially stay around for hundreds of years eventually ending up in the ground and sea. The …
Most of us wear an item of clothing made of cotton every day, sleep in cotton sheets or use cotton wool as part of our daily beauty routine. But how much do we know about how cotton is grown and how it affects the environment? Humans have used cotton for thousands of years. Cotton balls …
