Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum policy conference on Tuesday, 22nd September 2020 will discuss Next steps for reducing food waste and plastic packaging – innovation and latest initiatives, responsibility and accountability, and priorities for policy. Speakers with Nicola Hopley, Food … Continue reading →
Plastfree Sanitary Pads are premium, eco-friendly, organic, ultra-absorbent sanitary pads. Two years of research and development materialised the concept of Plastfree- realising “Plastic has no place in periods.” At least one less single use plastic product will not burden the … Continue reading →
World Against Single Use Plastics (WASUP) is the brainchild of Professor Abdul Rasheed Gatrad, Professor in Paediatrics at the Universities of Kentucky, USA, and Wolverhampton, UK. Originally called Walsall Against Single Use Plastics at its launch last year it has … Continue reading →
Ella Daish is an activist and environmentalist who has been campaigning since early 2018 to eliminate all plastic from menstrual products. Her award winning campaign has over 200,000 signatures and is going from strength to strength with supermarkets and manufacturers … Continue reading →
2beplasticfree will be hosting a Pop up Shop at Emily’s Cafe, Earlsdon High Street from 4:30-8pm on the first Thursday of every month. They offer a wide variety of plastic-free alternatives and refillable cleaning products including washing up liquid, laundry … Continue reading →
The World Health Organisation published a report on Microplastics in drinking-water in 2019. Studies reporting the presence of microplastics in treated tap and bottled water have raised questions and concerns about the impact that microplastics in drinking-water might have on … Continue reading →
Plastic Oceans UK work with businesses, scientists, schools and policy-makers to change attitudes and behaviours towards plastic. They claim to have been experts on the issue for a decade, and to be solving the crisis through their science, education and … Continue reading →
This Facebook group says: This is an official Terracycle drop off point, run from my home 45, Atholl Crescent, CV10 7PB. There are green bins by my front door where you can drop off your recyclable rubbish. Accepted Waste: Now accepting: Crisp … Continue reading →
Having found that crisp packets and other plastic items that are put into the blue-lidded wheelie-bins supplied by Coventry City Council are not actually recycled but burned, Michelle Mcmanus set up boxes outside her home where anyone can deposit them … Continue reading →
Plastic Free Coventry is a community project facilitated by the charity Surfers Against Sewage. Did you know that every day approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans? That 320,000,000 metric tons of plastic generated … Continue reading →