AZoCleantech recently spoke to entrepreneur Siân Sutherland, the Co-Founder of A Plastic Planet, for International Women's Day. Her company's goal is to inspire the world to turn off the plastic tap to help reduce its burden on the planet.
Plastic equivalent to the weight of almost 90 Eiffel Towers is being sold by British supermarkets.
This represents a plastic footprint which has grown significantly since 2017, according to a new report by two environmental charities.
In its third annual
Checking Out On Plastics report, Greenpeace UK and the Environmental Investigation Agency found that the 10 leading supermarkets collectively put almost 900,000 tonnes of plastic packaging through the tills in 2019.
It also found that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.
While 2019 saw a dip of 1.6 per cent in plastic waste from the previous year, overall waste levels increased by 1.2 per cent from 2017’s figure.