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How to tackle the UK’s plastic pollution problem – with Coca-Cola
A special podcast from Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement.
Plastics
The next vinyl crisis
Vinyl sales are booming – but manufacturing records uses toxic plastic and vast amounts of energy. Will the industry ever…
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A world built on trash
Oliver Franklin-Wallis’s Wasteland shows how our rubbish creates an environmental and human catastrophe.
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A drinks industry for net zero
On our journey we’ve made progress – and learned many lessons.
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Skinny jeans, plastics, stress: what’s behind the decline in male fertility?
Why scientists are increasingly concerned about sperm.
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Video: Tackling the Plastics Crisis
Professor Steve Fletcher, Director of Revolution Platics and Professor of Ocean Policy & Economy at the University of Portsmouth on transforming…
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Is there promise in a global plastics pact?
We need to transform the plastics economy.
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The planet needs a plastics revolution
New cutting-edge research can transform the plastics industry
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Why demonising plastics won’t save the environment
The real source of major ecological catastrophes isn’t so much the existence of single-use plastics but rather poor waste management systems…
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The last straw: Michael Gove banning plastics is a disingenuous distraction
The crisis facing marine life is far, far bigger than a focus on straws and cotton buds suggests.
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