Photo taken from Pxhere Although individuals and families can impact the environment with their actions, it’s businesses that have the potential to make the most difference. Businesses do everything at larger volumes compared to individual people, so their choices can have a much bigger impact than a single person’s. If […]

“Over one trillion disposable cups and bottles enter our oceans and landfill sites every year”. This year, for the first time ever, it seems as if the world has woken up to the devastation of plastic waste and the damage every day items containing disposable plastic is doing to the […]

These days it’s impossible to go for a walk on a beach, anywhere, without seeing huge quantities of disposable plastic waste. All over the world the statistics are ever growing. Both staggeringly and frighteningly millions of tonnes of plastic debris are discarded every year polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and […]

A group called “Upping It,” based in the Moss Side and Rusholme areas of Manchester, is composed of citizens who could be called neighborhood rubbish clearance activists. They patrol, monitor, litter pick, educate, and work to beautify their neighbourhood, which includes about two hundred streets and nine thousand houses in […]