Our aim is to influence change in attitudes towards how we use and dispose of plastic and hope that some of our stories can inspire you and your business into being more environmentally friendly with plastic waste. As well as focussing on businesses, we also want to help educate everybody on just how impactful plastic …
Grangemouth Volunteers Reinstating Pride in the Community
Move over Avengers, there are new Superheroes in town! Volunteer Tom (left) and Founder Phyllis (right) Growing up in Grangemouth, I was always under the impression that everybody knew everybody. It was a safe place, you trusted your neighbours but more importantly, you knew them. Going back about ten/fifteen years ago (The Good Ol’ Days) …
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Pitching for Success
In Scotland, almost every high school has what’s known as an artificial pitch. They are becoming part of our game (Football) in Scotland with 25% of the top tier teams having a “plastic pitch”. (Couse, 2019) With them becoming increasingly popular it’s time to discuss the impact that they have on our planet. Most of …
Nurdle Hunt
Life’s a beach! We are so lucky in Scotland (wait for it) to have some of the worlds most beautiful scenery. However, it’s just like a nice house and we all must do our bit to keep it tidy. As we’ve mentioned quite a few times in our website (See our Nurdles article) that plastic …
Are Schools Failing our Children on Plastic Future?
We wanted to find out how passionate teachers are about plastic pollution and its prevention. Together with this, we wanted to investigate how schools are treating the growing issue within the classrooms. For us it is critical that schools educate children on looking after the environment – their future depends on it after all. We tried to interview a couple of local primary schools but sadly, none of them was empowered to …
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Operation Clean Sweep
Operation Clean Sweep is a global initiative set up to reduce the amount of plastic going into our rivers, seas and oceans. Whilst this has been an ever increasing issue for many years now; the UN acknowledge the ‘plastics crisis’ and on December 6th 2017 adopted a (non-binding) resolution calling for an end to plastic …
Katoen Natie
We would like to introduce you to one of our role model companies; Katoen Natie. Katoen Natie (KTN) are a global organization specialising in warehousing; logistics and port operations. They are currently present in twenty-eight different countries spread out across five continents employing over 12,000 people worldwide with 154 logistic platforms. The largest division of …
McDonald’s Goal to Reduce Plastic’s by 2025
Another company that is prioritising the environment as one of its core goals is McDonald’s. In the past few years, McDonald’s UK has transformed itself from being simply a fast food restaurant into being an impactful member of local communities. They sponsor many community groups and events such as local football teams and various charities together. …
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Nurdles
A nurdle is a small plastic pellet about the size of a coffee granule. Billions upon billions are produced every year. They are the raw material which goes in to making our plastic products. Due to spills and mishandling in Industry, many do not make it into our plastic products and end up in the …
Planet Plastic 