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Join the global plastic pollution cleanup day and do a mini brand audit!
It’s Brand Audit time again and alongside our allies in the global Break Free From Plastic movement, we’re inviting folks to help gather data from across Canada and around the…
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Avoiding the back to school/work plastic blues on your next shopping mission
How is it the end of (northern hemisphere) summer already?! I don’t know about you, but I am so not ready to give up patio lunches, say goodbye to the…
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REACTION – Global Ocean Treaty negotiations at the UN
New York – Over 190 countries came together at the United Nations to negotiate a historic Global Ocean Treaty [1] that could help protect at least 30% of our seas…
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REACTION: WHO’s report – research must go on
Montréal – In response to the WHO report into the effects of microplastics on human health, Greenpeace Canada Head of Oceans and Plastics campaign responded: “This WHO report clearly acknowledges…
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Javier Bardem calls on world leaders to agree a Global Ocean Treaty
This morning, Oscar winner actor Javier Bardem was in Times Square to demand a “GLOBAL OCEAN TREATY NOW” as an electronic billboard displayed threatened marine life. See images here. Later,…
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Three Reasons to Support an Ambitious Global Ocean Treaty
On August 19, the third of four United Nations negotiations for a Global Ocean Treaty will open in New York. Why are these negotiations crucial for the future? Because they…
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REACTION: Sobeys takes a long-awaited first step on the road to the reduction of single-use plastics
Montreal – In response to Sobey’s announcement to remove all plastic bags at the cash in its 255 Canadian locations by the end of January 2020 and in its Montreal…
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Deep sea mining is not the future
If you were planning to send monster machines down to a deep ocean habitat that’s full of creatures found nowhere else on Earth, you’d need a pretty good story to…
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5 reasons why deep sea mining will only get our planet into deep trouble
The depths of our oceans hide a unique living world that we barely understand – but these mysteries are already under threat from a controversial new industry: deep sea mining.…
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Thousands of endangered sharks slaughtered by overfishing, new report reveals
Amsterdam, 27 June 2019 – Activists from Greenpeace International confronted a fishing vessel yesterday around 200 miles away from The Azores as it was hauling in sharks on a longline,…