Press for Everyday Plastic
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2022
BBC, May 2022: How much plastic do you use in a week
BBC Newsround, May 2022: Big Plastic Count: Families encouraged to count single-use plastics
BBC, May 2022: Devon councils team up to tackle plastic pollution
Daily Mail, May 2022: Big Plastic Count `will show national scale of UK´s waste problem´
Mirror, May 2022: Chris Packham and Joanna Lumley take part in UK's biggest plastic waste investigation
Independent, May 2022: Big Plastic Count ‘will show national scale of UK’s waste problem’
Evening Standard, May 2022: Big Plastic Count ‘will show national scale of UK’s waste problem’
The National, May 2022: Climate crisis: Greenpeace UK and Chris Packham launch Big Plastic Count
The Big Issue, May 2022: What is The Big Plastic Count and how do I get involved?
Independent, May 2022: What is The Big Plastic Count and how do I get involved?
Sky News, May 2022: Big Plastic Count ‘will measure national scale’ of Britain’s waste problem
BBC, May 2022: Big Plastic Count: Families encouraged to count single-use plastic
2021
July
Big Issue: ‘8 easy ways to reduce your plastic consumption’
May
Stash Media: ‘Greenpeace “Wasteminster” by Sil van der Woerd and Jorik Dozy’
Daily Mail: ‘Just 20 firms produce 55% of the world's plastic waste - with ExxonMobil topping the list, contributing 5.9MILLION tonnes per year, report reveals’
April
Global Office Supplies: ‘Plastic Waste Increases During Lockdown’
Independent: ‘Hellmann’s Moves To 100% Recycled Plastic Bottles’
The Times: ‘10 ways to be greener in the kitchen’
March
Daily Mail: ‘Tesco begins roll out of 'soft plastic' recycling points for bread bags, pet food pouches and crisp packets which are ignored by council collections’
February
Global Citizen: ‘5 Activists Who Are Transforming Plastic Waste Into Beautiful Art, Accessories, and More’
January
The Ecologist: ‘PM must set legally binding plastic pollution targets’
2020
December
Eco Age: ‘The Pandemic & Plastic: How Covid-19 Has Impacted the War on Plastic’
November
CGTN: ‘Concern grows over waste packaging from online shopping boom’
October
City To Sea interview: ‘Nat's Chats 💬 … with Daniel Webb , founder of Everyday Plastic’
Business Insider: ‘Seaweed may be the solution to our plastic crisis. A London startup is making edible packaging out of it.’
DE24 News: ‘This startup makes fully edible “plastic” sauce packages from seaweed’
Pharmacy Business: ‘Natural health brand BetterYou launches ‘plastic petition’ to unify UK recycling’
September
BBC: ‘The One Show’
Cornwall Live: ‘Plastic pollution on Cornwall beaches worse since end of lockdown’
R+S Recycling: ‘Household Plastic Waste Increases During Lockdown’
Universita di Padova: ‘At the Sustainable Development Festival we talk about art’
August
Mirror: ‘Coronavirus has seen single-use plastics sky-rocket to help keep us safe’
Daily Mail: ‘Average British household uses 216 plastic haircare bottles a YEAR - and one in ten say they 'can't be bothered' to be more eco-friendly’
DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs): ‘Picking up where we left off in the fight against plastic pollution’
The Times: ‘Families learn to part with plastic’
i: ‘Household plastic waste jumps 29% during lockdown, survey finds'
Independent: ‘Household plastic waste increased in lockdown, survey shows’
Telegraph: ‘Online ordering prompts increase in lockdown plastic waste‘
Sky News: ‘Household plastic waste increased during lockdown, survey suggests
Daily Mail: ‘Plastic waste soared during lockdown as British households shopped online and threw away 25 per cent more food packaging, parcel bags and PPE’
The National: ‘Household plastic waste footprint has increased during lockdown, survey shows’
Circular: ‘Survey finds household plastic waste increased under lockdown conditions’
Resource: ‘Household plastic use increased during lockdown, says survey’
The Ecologist: ’Lockdown rise in plastic waste’
Express and Star: ’Household plastic waste footprint has increased during lockdown, survey shows’
Packaging News: ‘Survey shows domestic plastic waste increase during lockdown’
News Chain: ‘Household plastic waste footprint has increased during lockdown, survey shows’
Entertainment Overdose: ‘Family plastic waste jumps 29% throughout lockdown, survey finds’
Evening Express: ‘Household plastic waste footprint has increased during lockdown, survey shows’
Lets Recycle: ‘Defra says more to be done on single-use plastics’
Trends Wide: ‘Plastic waste soared during lockdown as British households generated 25 per cent more than usual’
Wales Online: ‘Plastic waste increases during lockdown with just small amount suitable for recycling’
Big World Tale: ‘UK households generated 25 per cent more plastic waste during lockdown’
Innovation News Network: ‘UK to launch new facility for converting plastic waste into hydrogen energy’
July
For A Richer Life: ‘Plastic Free July’
June
First Mile, Wasted podcast: ‘How to be plastic savvy in a plastic world’
Planet Patrol: ‘How much plastic are we using everyday: an interview with Planet Hero Daniel Webb’
East London Lines: ‘Anti-plastic group goes online to panel discussions’
Kent Online: ‘Campaigners from Everyday Plastic and Plastic Free concerned single-use plastic waste could rise in the wake of coronavirus pandemic’
May
Young Scientists Journal: ‘Earth Day Interview with Daniel Webb’
BBC: ‘Coronavirus: Running a campaign from home in lockdown
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Pebble Mag: ‘I Took Part In The Everyday Plastic Survey - And So Should You’
Kent Online: ‘Everyday Plastic campaigner, from Thanet, reveals extent of waste in lockdown experiment’
Sustainable Newport Shropshire: ‘Everyday Plastic Audit – Lockdown Edition Challenge
April
Age of Plastic Podcast: ‘Plastic Waste Campaigning in Lockdown’
City to Sea: ‘12 ways to reduce plastic pollution’
March
On The Hill: ‘Going Plastic-Free’
February
Art Rabbit: ‘Plastic Matter’
Resource: ‘NGOs criticise Coca-Cola ‘single-use’ claim in letter to WRAP’
January
BBC: ‘Asda trials refills at 'sustainability store'
2019
December
The Earthbound Report: ‘Getting to grips with Everyday Plastic’
Percol: ‘Our Sustainable Heroes’
Stylist: ‘5 things I learned from trying to give up single-use plastic’
November
HuffPost: ‘I Kept All My Plastic For A Year To Measure My Waste. Now It’s Your Turn.’
September
Daily Mail: ‘Campaigners blast meal kit delivery service Hello Fresh for using 32 pieces of plastic in a single box - but some claim it's customers' fault for being 'too lazy to do grocery shopping'
August
Sunday Assembly: ‘Our waste consumption, poetry and London Labs!’
July
Naturaler: ‘How Much Plastic Does One Person Use in a Day?’
June
Design Insiders: ‘A conversation between: Jim Biddulph & Daniel Webb’
May
Raw Bottles: ‘Plastic pioneer – Daniel Webb, Everyday Plastic’
British Library: ‘Unwrapping the Packaging Problem’
Plastic Waste Hub: ‘Unwrapping the Packaging Problem’
Design Boom: ‘cube video captures the ocean’s plastic threat and designer’s solutions’
March
Eco Age: ‘Life As I Know It: Daniel Webb’
January
Our Good Brands: ‘One year. 4,490 plastic items: uncovering the recycling smokescreen’
Age of Plastic: ‘How much plastic do we use in a year?’
2018
December
Shortlist: ‘New Year, New Heroes: Meeting six men trying to make the world a better place in 2019’
November
Plastic Soup Foundation: ‘Over 30 kilos of plastic waste per person a year and barely recycled’
Oxfam: ‘Drastic on Plastic’
Guardian: ‘I collected my plastic waste for a year, and learned the truth about recycling’
October
Treehugger: ‘This Is What a Year's Worth of Plastic Looks Like’
ITV: ‘UK throws away 295 billion pieces of plastic waste a year, report estimates’
Surfers Against Sewage: ‘Everyday Plastic: what we throw away and where it goes’
Metro: ‘Man collected all the the plastic he used for a year – and this is what it looks like’
The Telegraph: ‘Plastic Fantastic’
Mirror: ‘Man keeps all the plastic he binned in year totaling 4,490 individual bits - and most can only be used once’
Huffington post: ‘This Man Saved All The Plastic He Would Have Thrown Away In A Year’
The Sun: ‘WHAT A WASTE. Brit’s shocking photos of 4,490 pieces of plastic he used in a year… and 70 per cent can’t be recycled’
The Scotsman: ‘UK throws away 295bn pieces of plastic a year'’
Express: ‘How we trash 295bn bits of plastic a year’
Gibraltar Chronical: ‘UK throws away 295 billion pieces of plastic waste every year, report estimates’
Big World Tale: ‘UK consumers throw away 295 BILLION pieces of plastic waste a year’
Yahoo News: ‘Campaigner collects every plastic item he used for a year... and the results are shocking’
September
Clear Public Space: ‘Interview with Daniel Webb: Let`s produce less waste and recycle more!’
August
Vice: ‘Festivals Can Still Be Radical Spaces, If You Want Them To Be’
June
Tay Associates: ‘How to reduce plastic in the office’
Dreamland: ‘There’s a new piece of art at Dreamland and it comes in the form of the next commission for the Mural by the Sea project.’
May
ABC Australia: ‘Daniel Webb stands beside his installation 'Everyday Plastic'’
Keep Britain Tidy: ‘What if you didn’t throw away your throw-away plastics?’
April
Metro: ‘Artist makes incredible mural out of all the plastic he used in a year’
Global Citizen: ‘Artist Daniel Webb Turned a Year’s Worth of Plastic Into Art’
Country Living: ‘Artist creates thought-provoking mural from every single piece of plastic he used in one year’
Guardian: ‘I kept all my plastic for a year – the 4,490 items forced me to rethink’
What’s Orb: ‘Plastic Waste Everywhere! Is Any Of My Plastic Out There?’
Outdoor World: ‘I kept all my plastic for a year the 4,490 items forced me to rethink’
KWIB (Key Women In Business) Magazine: Dreamland Margate unveils ‘Everyday Plastic’ artwork for Mural-by-the-Sea’
March
Creative Boom: ‘Dreamland Margate unveils 'Everyday Plastic' for Mural-by-the-Sea’
The Isle Of Thanet News: ‘Huge Everyday Plastic photo unveiled at Dreamland’
My Green Pod: ‘Dreamland Margate’s ‘Mural-by-the-Sea’ commission shows what a year’s worth of plastic use looks like’
Material Lab: ‘Everyday Plastic’
February
Kent Online: ‘Margate: Dreamland announces second Mural-by-the-Sea project’
Margate Mercury: ‘Spring News and Openings’