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Bottling it

The world produces a million plastic drinking bottles every minute, threatening a litter apocalypse. Who is responsible and is there a solution?

4 December 2017

  • Person drinking from water fountain.

    Sadiq Khan plans network of London water fountains to reduce plastic waste

    Proposals include new fountains and bottle-refill stations across the capital in parks and public squares

13 November 2017

  • An employee prepares a cup of coffee inside a Pret A Manger sandwich store in London

    Share your photos and stories of how you are avoiding plastic

    With a growing number of UK food and drink outlets ditching drinking straws and plastic bottles, we’d like to hear your tips for reducing plastic consumption

16 October 2017

  • Plastic bottles and other waste covers a beach.

    High-street outlets move to ditch plastic amid environmental concerns

    Pret A Manger becomes the latest to act by offering free filtered water and selling empty glass bottles

17 July 2017

  • Bottles of cosmetics<br>GettyImages-557134751

    My week without plastic: 'I found a toothbrush made of pig hair'

    We produce 300m tonnes of plastic a year – 5m tonnes of which ends up in the oceans. How easy is it to ditch the excess packaging and learn to love shampoo in solid bars?

15 July 2017

  • Nurdles

    From Myanmar to Mumbai: your images of plastic waste around the world

    Readers document the rising environmental crisis of plastic waste, as the planet struggles to cope with a million plastic bottles being sold every minute

11 July 2017

  • Coca-Cola European Partners has repeatedly refused to release data to Greenpeace about its global plastic usage.

    Coca-Cola to increase amount of recycled plastic in its bottles

    Exclusive: move to improve targets and increase support for recycling comes amid pressure from environmentalists

7 July 2017

  • A cat crouches on a polluted beach strewn with plastic bottles near Dakar in Senegal.

    Plastic bottle battle: members respond to our new environment series

  • ICOAST-ENVIRONMENT-POLLUTION<br>Plastic bottles and other waste cover a beach after being washed ashore near the port of Abidjan on August 5, 2015 despite efforts by the government to promote a greener economy by banning plastic bags. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)

    Plastic bottles and waste: share your photos and stories

4 July 2017

  • Young university students volunteering to clean litter off the beach and foreshore at Aberystwyth Wales UK.<br>DXA00K Young university students volunteering to clean litter off the beach and foreshore at Aberystwyth Wales UK.

    I pick up plastic waste to save it from landfill. It's lonely but worth it

    Andrew Mayers
  • Plastic bottles washed up on Pembrey Sands beach, Carmarthenshire

    Tackle UK's plastic bottle problem with money-back scheme, ministers told

30 June 2017

  • Tateh Lehbib Braica – aka ‘the crazy bottle guy’ – has built circular houses that protect from wind and sun from waste plastic bottles.

    The house that Tateh built ... out of sand-filled plastic bottles

    In the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Algerian desert, Tateh Lehbib Braica – aka ‘the crazy bottle guy’ – has built circular houses from waste plastic that protect from wind and sun

29 June 2017

  • Bales of plastic waste

    Stop exporting plastic waste to China to boost recycling at home, say experts

  • Man sorting recycling in China.

    We need to talk about plastic bottles - video

  • Plastic in the water, Harbor of Tripolis, Tripoli

    If you drop plastic in the ocean, where does it end up?

  • A young girl uses a deposit return scheme outside a grocery store in Oregon.

    Could a money-back scheme clean up the UK's plastic bottle plague?

  • How to live without plastic bottles ...

  • The Bristol refill-reuse bottle campaign that is spreading across Europe

28 June 2017

  • Bottles of water sit in a cooler at a hot dog stand in San Francisco, California

    How San Francisco is leading the way out of bottled water culture

    The city is not just restricting sales but working to ensure people have access to safe high-quality tap water
  • A woman sorts through bottles at a recycling centre in Beijing.

    China's informal army of recyclers keep plastic bottles out of landfill

    In the global rush for bottled water, China leads the way. But while cities lack official recycling schemes, some residents are turning the tide of plastic waste into cash and keeping it out of landfil in the process
  • A file picture dated 13 April 2010 shows a boy from Senegal walking along a polluted beach strewn with predominantly plastic bottles in the village of Ngor, Dakar, Senegal.

    A million bottles a minute: world's plastic binge 'as dangerous as climate change'

    Exclusive: Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments
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