Tag: City to Sea

UWE Bristol and City to Sea raise a reusable cup to new plans to cut plastic pollution

Stuart Mitchell

The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and Students’ Union has today confirmed that 3 of its coffee shops will be part of the Refill Return Cup scheme. City to Sea who are behind the Refill Return Cup is also announcing that it is due to go live across the city on World Refill Day (16th June). The innovative new returnable cup scheme will allow Bristolians to have their takeaway tea and coffee in a reusable cup which they can borrow from participating coffee shops for free and…

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New polling shows public demand for “naked” fruit and veg

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental campaigners at Everyday Plastic and City to Sea have joined forces to demand supermarkets strip the plastic packaging off the most wasted food items in British households: Potatoes, apples, bananas, carrots, and onions. The move coincides with the day of the launch of the much anticipated one-year update from WRAP’s report “Reducing household food waste and plastic packaging”. The report comprehensively showed how supermarkets could cut both plastic packaging and food waste by enabling customers to “choose loose” fruit and veg. To mark one year since this ground-breaking report…

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New “Sea-EO” to take the helm at award-winning environmental not-for-profit 

Stuart Mitchell

The award-winning environmental not-for-profit, City to Sea, has announced and welcomed their new “Sea-EO”, Harriet Bosnell. City to Sea campaign to stop plastic pollution at source and are best known for its campaigns including; Refill, Plastic Free Periods, and most recently, Cut the Cutlery which saw some of the most polluting single-use plastics banned across the UK.   Harriet takes over from the Founder of City to Sea, Natalie Fee, the figurehead of many City to Sea campaigns and author of the best-selling book “How to Save the World for…

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Environmental campaigners call for a greenwashing “AmnesTea” for tea bags with plastics in

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental campaigners at the not-for-profit, City to Sea, have called on the big tea bag brands to take part in a greenwashing “AmnesTea” and to stop using confusing terms like “compostable” and “biodegradable” unless their products meet the highest standards. Currently, some tea bags can be made enmeshed with plastics like polypropylene fibers, but even tea bags claiming to be “plastic-free” or even “compostable” can often include bioplastics like polylactic acid (PLA). PLA, like many other bioplastics, is a plant-based polymer that is considered “biodegradable” but only in industrial settings…

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New Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) report shows companies are failing to tackle plastic pollution so government must step up say environmentalists

Stuart Mitchell

Responding to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) new report, the Global Commitment 2022 Progress Report, environmentalists City to Sea, have said it shows the need for government to play a more interventionist role in light of businesses’ failure to voluntarily act. Commenting, City to Sea’s Policy Manager, Steve Hynd, said: “This report shows clearly that voluntary commitments from big business have failed to tackle the plastic crisis. If anything, it shows how plastic production has gone up since it was set up in 2018. This is a deplorable failure by businesses…

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