Tag: City to Sea

How one campaign is saving over 100 million plastic bottles every year

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental Charity ‘City to Sea‘ marked World Water Day (22nd March) by urging politicians, companies and the public to help reduce plastic pollution by joining their award-winning Refill campaign in an effort to help tackle the billions of single-use plastic water bottles used in the UK every year. The campaign already saves over 100 million plastic bottles a year.  Around 14 billion plastic bottles were estimated to be used in the UK in 2018  Billions of these are plastic water bottles – 7.7 billion it was estimated in 2017   Takeaway…

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Friends of the Earth, Keep Britain Tidy and City to Sea urge Government to set concrete targets to tackle plastic pollution

Stuart Mitchell

Friends of the Earth, Keep Britain Tidy and City to Sea have joined forces to urge the Government to set legally binding targets to reduce plastic pollution. The call comes in an open letter to Environment Secretary George Eustice MP published today that describes the piecemeal banning of plastic straws and cutlery as the just “first steps” towards tackling plastic pollution. The letter comes as the Defra consultation for banning some of the most polluting single-use plastic items, such as cutlery, plates and polystyrene containers, closes. In the letter, the…

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UKRI Backs New Circular Economy Model, ‘Re’, With £3 Million Of Funding, After ‘Highly Successful’ Trial

Stuart Mitchell

‘Re’, the ground-breaking reuse model and circular economy initiative, developed by Beauty Kitchen, has announced that UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge is granting £3 million in funding specifically for the wider development and roll out of ‘Re’ across the UK. ‘Re’ will become the new spearhead of the national effort to fulfil the UK’s Plastics Pact which seeks to alter the UK’s relationship with, and management of, plastic packaging. So far, the ‘highly successful’ trial of the reuse model has saved over 4 million…

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Public tells government to ban polluting single-use plastics now

Stuart Mitchell

More than 100,000 people have called on the government to ban the most polluting single-use plastic items, such as plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene food packaging. The call comes as public pressure builds on Environment Secretary George Eustice to be quicker and more ambitious in tackling plastic pollution once and for all. A petition with 117,000 signatures was handed into Downing Street today, ahead of the government closing its consultation on banning common single-use items this Saturday. The campaigners carried eye-catching placards and giant cutlery props with the wording ‘For…

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Global movement unites to tackle plastic pollution, urging governments and brands to put reuse at the heart of recovery plans

Stuart Mitchell

Global environmental NGOs including Friends of the Earth, City to Sea and Break Free From Plastic are joining forces to call on businesses, governments and individuals to put reuse and refill at the centre of their efforts to tackle plastic pollution.  The urgent call came on World Refill Day (16th June) to highlight the fact that despite an increase in public awareness over recent years, plastic pollution remains a growing environmental problem. Exclusive analysis released by City to Sea of data from Reloop, shows that currently Europe burns, landfills and litters over 50 billion single-use beverage containers a year, the majority of which are plastic. But significantly the analysis suggests that with…

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