It seems impossible to get away from it once you notice it, but we use plastic like it’s going out of fashion.
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Coffee lovers and the environment
I will admit to consuming about two cups of coffee a day. It is great for the fatigue but overall it is detrimental to my bank account and terrible for the environment. The Environmental Audit Committee estimated that we throw away 2.5 billion coffee cups every year but less than 1 in 400 are actually…
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Bluefin: Tuna fishing’s catch-22
In the small fishing village of North Lake, Canada, people remember when the tuna went away. Now they’re back in numbers, and so is North Lake’s reputation as the “tuna capital of the world”. But scientists claim stocks are down by 90% globally, and these normally wary tuna are so hungry that they will now…
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Riverblue: Exposing the fashion industry’s dirty laundry
“How clean are your clothes?” probes the tagline for Riverblue, a powerful film that shows the high cost of low cost clothing.
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Our Beeline towards Self-Destruction
Objectively, bees are great. Their gentle murmur as they clumsily sway through floral blooms is an inherent ingredient to the British summer. Acting as key pollinators in ecosystems across the globe, it was Einstein who stated, “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would have only four years to live”.
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