Truth About Plastic

5/ Do some people think the other 22.5m tonnes of bottles referred to above eventually dematerialise after 'recycling'? Plastics recycling as a fix for the growing plastic pollution crisis is magical thinking - and it needs challenging now.

4/ It's casual misinformation like this that keeps the recycling myth alive and the plastic tap turned on fully. By shapeshifting plastics or downcycling them into fleeces, etc we are just delaying their debut as pollution. (Of which landfill and incineration are a part).

3/ The report states that we use 38.5 million plastic bottles a day in the UK and that 16 million end up in landfill, incineration or as pollution. The truth is that the full 38.5 million end up in landfill, incineration or as pollution, it’s just that some are diverted for a few months or years.

Fibre-based bottle innovator secures Government funding for first commercial plant near Glasgow - edie Pulpex, a sustainable packaging technology company specialising in fibre-based bottles, has secured backing from the National Wealth Fund (NWF) and the Scottish National Investment Bank under a £62m f...

2/ Journalists and politicians do a great job of perpetuating the myth that recycling plastics somehow makes them “go away”. For example, this story in Edie: www.edie.net/fibre-based-...

a cartoon mouse in a yellow dress is holding a rope and a stick . ALT: a cartoon mouse in a yellow dress is holding a rope and a stick .

It’s weird how so many highly educated people, including investigative journalists, fall for the recycling myth, isn't it obvious? A thread…

He’s a petrochemical billionaire who knows exactly what the legacy of his chemical and plastic pollution is doing to human health. Sportwashing has been a good way of ensuring that people walk around with the name of a company that makes carcinogens and endocrine disrupters on their chests. Clever.

And that means reduction by legislation- even if 5 billion of us switch to bamboo toothbrushes that’s not going to sort this. This is a system problem, not an individuals problem. 👍

👍Once you’ve got your plastic eyes on, you can see what’s happening… tech, cars, cladding, insulation, roofs, shops, clothes. We have become a plastic-based society within 8 decades. It’s all heading for incineration. We need global caps on production. “Reduce”is our top priority at this time.

🎄🧵All we want for Christmas is… for people to stop saying “I recycle” 🤨 When it comes to plastics, you don’t recycle. You put it hopefully into some or other container from whence it will most likely be shipped to Malaysia where it will be burned by the road or in a cement kiln.

Securing the future of water: Coca-Cola’s action in Great Britain - edie Water is the lifeblood of communities, ecosystems, and economies, and its availability is increasingly under threat from climate change, overuse, and pollution. Recognising this, Coca-Cola GB has made...

Is this Good? Or just Greenwash? Our answer is this: The extent to which it is good is in an eternal and insoluble compromise with the extent to which it paints over vast crimes www.edie.net/securing-the...

More than 400 chemicals in plastic products linked to breast cancer – study Exposure to these toxic compounds, found in everyday items, could be elevating cancer risk in young women

The plastics/ petchem industry will hit back with some other health scares. It’s all in the playbook. But this is deeply worrying www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Coca-Cola accused of quietly dropping its 25% reusable packaging target Exclusive: Campaigners say company’s apparent abandoning of 2030 pledge is a ‘masterclass in greenwashing’

Well, whaddya know? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Local councils are an essential part of the fossil fuel PR machine. They sanitise the fraud of plastics recycling. Unwittingly? Surely they must know recycling plastics is linear, not circular and enables business as usual?” Discuss

Honoured to be joined by so many at the screening of #BuyNowTheShoppingConspiracy and the Q and A last night in London. This is a documentary that needs to be seen.

Tonight- 6pm, screening in Brixton. Q and A afterwards. Free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/buy-now-th...

Cap Plastic Production | The oil industry is fueling the plastics crisis 12% of oil demand comes from plastic production and 5.3% of global carbon emissions comes from making plastic. The Global Plastics Treaty must cap plastic production.

See this important campaign also: capplasticproduction.org

We did a thing and worked with fellow advocates on an open letter - see above - but another one is more current: www.bridgetobusan.com

YouTube video by Truth About Plastic Did you know there’s a Global Plastics Treaty?

“The most significant environmental multilateral deal since the Paris accord” - the GPT - culminates in Busan, Korea next week. Ending plastic pollution depends on cuts to production. A Global Plastics Treaty can only achieve this if countries hold the line against Big Oil. youtu.be/PwuPYgyFbRQ?...

YouTube video by Netflix Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy | Official Trailer | Netflix

Hello! We are pleased to host a screening of this new documentary launching on Netflix. It’s in Brixton on 26 November. DM us for a free ticket youtu.be/OVfZw_eqJW8?...