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The LastPad campaign is trying to reduce the number of disposable period products we use.

'Stop suffocating your vagina': Reusable period pads launch for women

The WasteShark by RanMarine is designed to remove floating pollution such as plastics, algae and biomass from lakes, ponds, waterways and harbours.

Can these plastic-gobbling inventions keep rubbish out of the ocean?

Scientists have discovered a type of worm that can eat plastic

Discovery of plastic-munching superworm 'exciting', say scientists

Dr Fabien Laurier using the new global waste finding tool.

Plastic waste can now be found and monitored from space

What items you can and can't recycle can be confusing.

These are all the items you shouldn’t put in your recycling bin

The literacy programm has started in 2018.

Meet the young pirates protecting the ocean from plastic pollution

Microplastics are being found in people's blood

Microplastics discovered in human blood - should we be worried?

25/03/2022

Tonnes of illegally imported garbage was returned to Britain after Sri Lankan authorities refused to process it.

Body parts illegally shipped to Sri Lanka are returned to the UK

22/02/2022

Around 1,500 volunteers, researchers and Mausund Field Station staff have been involved in the huge clean-up effort.

A quarter of the soil on these Norwegian islands is plastic waste

17/01/2022

Eco-friendly Christmas wrapping paper - get creative this year and make your own.

Eco-friendly wrapping paper: How to make your own this Christmas

17/12/2021

A fish dies as a result of ingesting nurdles. A total of over 470 turtles, nearly 50 dolphins and 8 whales are been washed ashore, dead, after Sri Lanka's nurdle spill.

What are nurdles and how are they devastating the environment?

12/12/2021

Microplastics are so tiny they can get into our bodies without us knowing - and wreak havoc.

Are microplastics making us resistant to antibiotics?

08/12/2021

The researchers teamed up with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect plastic debris.

Shrimp-like creatures are sailing to new continents on plastic waste

07/12/2021

Although researchers used salmon sperm to create the plastic, it can be made from any DNA.

Sperm is being used to create an eco-friendly alternative to plastic

29/11/2021

Activist Ella Daish doorsteps Procter & Gamble's European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland

Procter & Gamble shocked to find giant tampon applicator on doorstep

17/11/2021