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"Consumer products companies including Procter & Gamble Co and Coca-Cola Co are emerging as new targets for global activism, with green groups blaming them for fouling the ocean with plastic and activists urging governments to regulate them."

Consumer goods CEOs in Davos hot seat over plastic waste Consumer products companies including Procter & Gamble Co and Coca-Cola Co are e...

"Loop will send you name-brand products, like Tide detergent, Crest mouthwash, or Häagen Dazs ice cream. When you’re done, you ship the empty container back, where it gets cleaned and reused for the next customer."

A coalition of giant brands is about to change how we shop forever, with a new zero-waste platform Loop will send you name-brand products, like Tide detergent, Crest mouthwash, or Häagen Dazs ice cream. When you’re done, you ship the empty container back, where it gets cleaned and reused for the next customer.

Plastic bottle washed up after decades The coastguard said it was "shocking" how long plastic could "survive" in the sea.

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"Stopping plastics from making their way into the oceans 'should be the focus of 95 percent of our current effort, with the remaining 5 percent on clean up,' said Richard Thompson, who heads the International Marine Litter Research Unit at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.

"If we consider cleanup to be a center stage solution, then we accept it is OK to contaminate the oceans and that our children and our children’s children will continue to clean up the mess," he said.

What do you guys think about this project? Important part of the solution or misguided?

A giant floating trash collector will try to scoop up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch On Sept. 8, an ungainly, 2,000-foot-long contraption will steam under the Golden Gate Bridge in what’s either a brilliant quest or a fool's errand: to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

“I thought, ‘Did we culture-hack this?’ ” said Dune Ives, executive director of Lonely Whale, whose social-media campaign advocates banning single-use plastic straws. “Did we change the conversation around straws?”

The Summer of Plastic-Straw Bans: How We Got There The story of how plastic straws went from ubiquitous to utensil non grata is one of psychology, a well-timed turtle and the power of social media. There has also been minimal industry pushback.

Ikea to ban plastic straws in all its UK stores and restaurants by October 2018 Global furniture retailer Ikea has announced (July 16) that it will stop selling packs of single-use plastic straws in its UK and Ireland stores later this year, as part of its commitment to eliminate all single-use plastics from its global product range by 2020. - edie news centre

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Ikea plans ban on single-use plastics The Swedish retail giant says it will stop selling single-use plastic products in two years.