The plastic bag ban is moving slowly but surely in the UK where citizens are replacing the plastic with renewable canvas. But countries such as China are still struggling to follow suit and enforce the ban on plastic bags. The 1.3 billion people who reside in Beijing still stride up and down markets gathering bag [...]

China’s plastic bag usage is phenomenal, even for a country with the population of 1.3 billion. Three billion plastic bags are used every day in China, amounting to 1.6 million tonnes each year. The Chinese government wants to reduce this amount to 1.1 million tonnes per year, with limits on packaging coming into force on [...]

Scientist Dr Wallace Broecker, the man who coined the term “global warming” in the seventies, has proposed a radical new idea to combat soaring CO2 emissions. At the Hay Literary Festival in Powys, Dr Broecker proposed the creation of giant artificial trees, or “carbon scrubbers” to pull CO2 from the air. 20 million of these [...]

The dreadful weather of 2007 has caused serious pollution on many of Britain’s beaches. Heavy storms swept sewage, street debris and animal waste down to the sea, resulting in 52 of the Good Beach Guide’s 500 excellent beaches losing their premier certification. In addition to this, the number of coastal areas that failed to meet [...]

The city of love, San Francisco, banned grocery stores from handing out plastic bags in November of last year, forcing them instead to stock recyclable or reusable bags, or bio-plastic instead. According to NBC the city has extended that ban this Tuesday to cover all pharmacy companies that operate in five or more locations in [...]

With “green” logos sweeping the marketplaces it’s hard to decide what brands are really ethical and what brands are scams. It’s common for cosmetic companies to promote their anti-animal testing pledges but what they don’t tell you doesn’t have to do with testing, it has to do with production. Many cosmetic companies use raw materials [...]

The aim of ethical banking is to make a positive social and/or ecological impact on the world. Today, many people are looking for more in their banks than just high interest rates. There are a number of different projects that your money can go into besides investments. Not only can you buy stock in ethical [...]

Being green isn’t all about vegetable peelings and electricity deprivation, there are more glamorous, stylish ways to be green and make your business more efficient.
How do you get to work? Do you cruise around London in your 4×4, spurting nasty fumes into your office window? No, you wave down a greentomatocar. Greentomatocars are a cab [...]

In past years, with Britons set to eat an estimated 80 million eggs over the Easter period, those environmentally minded souls would have become more fierce than ever about the amount of packaging due to head straight for the landfill. Friends of the Earth in Scotland estimated that the rubbish produced during last year’s chocolate [...]

A floating rubbish dump in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly and now covers an area about twice the size of the continental U.S.
The “plastic soup” is the world’s largest rubbish dump. It is held in place by the swirling underwater currents of the North Pacific gyre- a vortex where the ocean circulates slowly because [...]