Plastic pollution is choking our rivers and oceans. It's time for the European Union to drive a switch to genuine alternatives (not bioplastic) and to compel plastic producers to take responsibility for pollution.
January 2020
Today, 102 environmental organisations are launching the “Blue Manifesto” – a rescue plan that lays out concrete actions to turn the tide on Earth’s ever-degraded and polluted oceans and coastlines. …
May 2019
European ministers have approved much-anticipated laws to slash single-use plastics in the EU at a meeting in Brussels. The new laws to reduce single-use plastics were negotiated between the European…
December 2018
After months of intense negotiations, the EU has agreed much-anticipated laws to slash single-use plastics in the EU.
October 2018
National governments must follow suit and cut single-use plastic, Greenpeace Strasbourg, 24 October 2018 – The European Parliament has voted to protect people and the environment from the most common single-use…
October 2018
European Parliament must close loopholes, say campaigners Brussels – Producers could simply market items like throwaway plastic cups as reusable, under changes to a draft EU laws on single-use plastics…
September 2018
Strasbourg – Biodegradable and compostable plastics do not prevent plastic pollution and should not be an excuse to keep consuming single-use plastics, the European Parliament recognised in a vote today.