Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
Lucy Siegle
Jul 2018 · Trapeze · Narrated by Lucy Siegle and Hugo Tagholm
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Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times
More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year
300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year
An estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans
38.5 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UK
A million plastic bottles are used per minute around the world
500 million plastic straws are used per year
Plastic flows into our lives from every direction and most of it is not recycled. Instead it is incinerated or ends up in landfill, where it will sit for hundreds of years, or enters the world's seas where it fragments into tiny pieces to become microplastics - the environmental scourge of our times. Without big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by 2050. That is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren.
Turning the tide on Plastic is here just in time. Journalist, broadcaster and eco lifestyle expert Lucy Siegle provides a powerful call to arms to end the plastic pandemic along with the tools we need to make decisive change. It is a clear-eyed, authoritative and accessible guide to help us to take decisive and effective personal action. If only 12 of us adopt Lucy's 'reduce, rethink, refill, refuse' approach, we could potentially ditch 3K-15K single items of plastic in a year. When we consider our power as influencers - whether at school, the hairdressers, at work or on the bus - we suddenly become part of something significant. So now is the time to speak up, take action and demand the change you want to see in the ocean, in the supermarket aisles and on the streets. It's time to turn the tide on plastic, and this book will show you how.
This audio edition features exclusive extra material, including:
An interview with Hugo Tagholm, CEO of Surfers Against Sewage
An interview with Emily Penn, Mission Director and co-founder of eXXpedition, recorded live from Hawaii ahead of eXXpedition's voyage through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the densest ocean plastic accumulation zone on the planet.
Tips from Fiona Llewelyn, Chair of Plastic Free St.Agnes, for how your community can cut down plastic use.
Written and Read by Lucy Siegle
(p) Orion Publishing Group Ltd 2018
More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year
300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year
An estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans
38.5 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UK
A million plastic bottles are used per minute around the world
500 million plastic straws are used per year
Plastic flows into our lives from every direction and most of it is not recycled. Instead it is incinerated or ends up in landfill, where it will sit for hundreds of years, or enters the world's seas where it fragments into tiny pieces to become microplastics - the environmental scourge of our times. Without big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by 2050. That is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren.
Turning the tide on Plastic is here just in time. Journalist, broadcaster and eco lifestyle expert Lucy Siegle provides a powerful call to arms to end the plastic pandemic along with the tools we need to make decisive change. It is a clear-eyed, authoritative and accessible guide to help us to take decisive and effective personal action. If only 12 of us adopt Lucy's 'reduce, rethink, refill, refuse' approach, we could potentially ditch 3K-15K single items of plastic in a year. When we consider our power as influencers - whether at school, the hairdressers, at work or on the bus - we suddenly become part of something significant. So now is the time to speak up, take action and demand the change you want to see in the ocean, in the supermarket aisles and on the streets. It's time to turn the tide on plastic, and this book will show you how.
This audio edition features exclusive extra material, including:
An interview with Hugo Tagholm, CEO of Surfers Against Sewage
An interview with Emily Penn, Mission Director and co-founder of eXXpedition, recorded live from Hawaii ahead of eXXpedition's voyage through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the densest ocean plastic accumulation zone on the planet.
Tips from Fiona Llewelyn, Chair of Plastic Free St.Agnes, for how your community can cut down plastic use.
Written and Read by Lucy Siegle
(p) Orion Publishing Group Ltd 2018
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About the author
Journalist, broadcaster and eco expert Lucy Siegle has had a weekly prime time TV slot dedicated to battling waste plastic (The One Show, BBC1) and a decade of experience as the Observer and Guardian's Ethical Living columnist. Lucy founded the Green Carpet Challenge with Livia Firth to address consumption and sustainability in the fashion industry, and recently worked on environmental projects with Emma Watson and Ellie Goulding. She is well known for her enthusiasm, optimism and playful authority. She recently chaired a panel of some of the world's most exciting plastic activists planning a post-plastic future at the third UN Environment Assembly in Kenya.
You can follow Lucy on:
Twitter @lucy siegle
Instagram @theseagull
You can follow Lucy on:
Twitter @lucy siegle
Instagram @theseagull
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