Guest Blog: Shannon Bergstrom brings you inspiration and advice to help you reduce your single-use plastic consumption – vital in helping our oceans. Every year we produce over 381 million tons of plastic waste. Plastic waste pollutes the environment, endangers wildlife and contributes to global warming. Despite increased calls to reduce our reliance on plastic, […]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…Whether you think it is the most wonderful time of the year or if all you want for Christmas is for it to be over, you can take steps for it to be the last Christmas that produces excessive waste, plastic or otherwise. With our top tips, you’ll wish it […]
In February 2016, I had the idea for Team WiseOceans to give up plastic for Lent. Very quickly it became crystal clear that the term #plasticfree can be widely interpreted, difficult to achieve and slightly addictive. As instigator of this challenge I felt duty bound to lead by example and in so doing, found myself […]
Each member of the WiseOceans #plasticchallenge team has said the same thing to me- “I’ve had so many interesting conversations with people about plastic”. It’s true, as soon as I started on this challenge it amazed me that nearly every shop or restaurant/café I went in resulted in a discussion about plastic. By asking for […]
A week or so into the WiseOceans Lent #plasticchallenge we thought it would be interesting to take stock and see how the challenge is going. It’s fair to say it has been just as challenging as we thought but we’ve been committed to it and dare I say even enjoyed it? As expected, there were […]
Lent 2016: The WiseOceans #plasticchallenge Team WiseOceans has given itself a #plasticchallenge for Lent. What does this mean? No plastic at all? Not quite – we are surrounded by plastic and some of it is integral to our daily lives but much of it is avoidable, albeit with some planning needed and some creative thinking. […]
