Tag: World Oceans Day

Prevented Ocean Plastic Announces Its Mission To Open 25 Recycling Collection Centres Across Four Continents By 2025

Stuart Mitchell

On this years World Oceans Day, Bantam Materials, the UK-based supplier of Prevented Ocean Plastic™ – a high quality, fully traceable, recycled plastic material made from discarded plastic collected from coastal areas at risk of ocean plastic pollution – announces it will open 25 high-volume collection centres by 2025. The centres will be opened in regions that have historically lacked recycling infrastructure to deal with their plastic waste, including Southeast Asia, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Mediterranean. The ambitious mission will develop efficient waste management infrastructure where it is…

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UK’s best-loved actors unite to urge government to end hypocrisy on ocean protection and halt destructive deep sea mining

Stuart Mitchell

Some of the UK’s best-loved film and TV stars have united on World Oceans Day to urge the UK government to stand by its promise to protect the oceans by calling for a moratorium on deep sea mining.  Household names and longtime oceans ambassadors Olivia Colman, Jim Carter, Stephen Fry, Robert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley – all of whom called on the government to back a strong Global Ocean Treaty – are using their platform to raise awareness of the dangers of deep sea mining. They are urging the UK…

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P&G Celebrates World Oceans Day

Stuart Mitchell

Procter & Gamble celebrates World Oceans Day and today reiterated its commitment to find solutions so that no P&G packaging finds its way to the world’s oceans. This builds on the Company’s leadership efforts in reducing its use of plastics in its packaging, increasing the amount of recycled plastic it is using and helping create the right infrastructures to enable recycling. Currently, 86% of P&G’s packaging is recyclable, and the Company has strong, ongoing efforts to further increase recyclability. It recently announced the creation of an innovative technology, that it…

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