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Boots to stop selling all plastic-based wet wipes by end of the year

Boots is to stop selling all wet wipes that contain plastic fibres by the end of the year. The pharmacy chain, which sold more than 800 million wet wipes in the last year, said it would replace plastic-based wipes with plant-based biodegradable ...

19 Apr 2022 at 01:25

Scotland

Scotland urged to ‘live up to promises’ on planned deposit return scheme

Scotland needs to “live up to our promises” and implement its deposit return scheme (DRS) as planned next year, campaigners have insisted. They insisted ministers must not push back the roll-out of the initiative any further – claiming ...

21 Nov 2022 at 01:01

Scotland

Volunteers found drinks-related rubbish on 95% of beach litter surveys – charity

21 Mar 2023 at 00:01

Eating mackerel no longer sustainable because of overfishing, says charity

Mackerel is no longer a sustainable fish to eat because of overfishing, an environmental charity has said. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS), which grades the sustainability of fish through a traffic light system called the ...

05 Apr 2023 at 10:35

Oysters returned to Firth of Forth for first time in a century

Native oysters have returned to the Firth of Forth for the first time in 100 years following a restoration project. Restoration Forth aims to reintroduce 30,000 oysters to the area and create an oyster reef in the estuary, ...

21 Sept 2023 at 00:01

Water firms accused of ‘scandalous cover-up’ over sewage volume data

Water firms have been accused of a “scandalous cover-up” after being unable to show much sewage they are pumping into rivers and seas. The Liberal Democrats said they tried to find out the volume of pollution through ...

09 Aug 2023 at 23:15

Food & Drink

Eco-friendly wines and spirits that are good for the ocean

With the summer holidays in full swing, chances are you’re heading to the beach and dipping your toe in the ocean. And the beauty of being close to the sea and wading in for a swim is the hope and promise of a ...

17 Aug 2023 at 09:45

More than 480,000 items of litter removed from UK beaches in nationwide survey

More than 480,000 items of litter were removed from UK beaches in 2023 as part of a nationwide survey. In the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) annual beach clean, 14,721 volunteers picked up rubbish from ...

20 Mar 2024 at 00:01

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh urges climate action at Cop27 to save corals

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh has urged world leaders at Cop27 in Egypt to “put their heads under the water” to see the coral reefs at risk of being lost without rapid climate action. The UN patron of the ...

04 Nov 2022 at 09:00

Humza Yousaf urged to ‘hold his nerve’ on UK’s first deposit return scheme

Environmental campaigners are calling on Scotland’s First Minister to “hold his nerve” and press ahead with the UK’s first deposit return scheme (DRS) – despite the row it has provoked with Westminster. ...

06 Jun 2023 at 11:23

Scotland

Sewage dumped in Scottish seas for 113,000 hours last year, campaigners warn

Sewage was discharged into seas around Scotland for more than 113,000 hours last year, according to analysis carried out by a leading ocean charity. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) believes the ...

19 May 2023 at 00:01

UK’s first deposit return scheme ‘cannot go ahead as planned’, minister says

Scotland’s planned deposit return scheme (DRS) for drinks cans and bottles “cannot go ahead as currently planned”, the minister in charge of it has admitted. Lorna Slater said the scheme – which was ...

06 Jun 2023 at 15:35

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