Further reading

The dark reality of the UK plastic waste

Why we are burning our recycling - The Guardian, March 2022

Thousands of tons of UK plastic dumped across world - Sky News, January 2018.

UK household plastics found in illegal dumps in Malaysia by Unearthed - Greenpeace, October 2018.

UK plastics recycling industry under investigation for fraud and corruption - the Guardian, October 2018.

The damages of the throwaway culture

The Story of Stuff - 20-minute film by the Story of Stuff, 2007.

A Crisis of Convenience: The corporations behind the plastics pollution pandemic - Greenpeace International, October 2018.

About sufficiency or the ‘economics of enough’

Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency’- Friends of the Earth Europe, March 2018.

The problems with ‘Bioplastics’

Why “Bioplastics” won’t solve plastic pollution - Rethink Plastic Alliance, 2018.

Unpacking non-conventional plastics - Environmental Investigation Agency, 2018.

Link between food packaging and food waste

Unwrapped: how throwaway plastic is failing to solve Europe’s food waste problem - Friends of the Earth Europe and Zero Waste Europe for the Rethink Plastic Alliance, April 2018.

Link between plastic and fossil fuel

Fuelling Plastics - CIEL, September 2017.

How Fracking Supports the Plastic Industry - Food and Water Watch, February 2017.

Link with climate change

Zero Waste Circular Economy. A Systemic Game-Changer to Climate Change - the Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2018.