1. NEW REPORT: Unilever - we see you 👀! You are selling 1700 highly-polluting plastic sachets every single second, fuelling the global plastic pollution crisis and dumping huge amounts of waste on countries in the Global South. A thread/.. greenpeace.org/international/… 2. And this is in spite of this invitation from former CEO Alan Jope for activists to “call him out” on plastic pollution four years ago in Marketing Week:

Plastics Rebelion has written an open letter to Ed Balls, asking him not to speak at this year’s British Plastics Federation Annual Dinner. A thread: 🧵🪡 As of yet there is no confirmation as to whether he’ll be regaling attendees with his Gangnam-moves. But he WILL be lending credibility to an industry which : lobbies against reduction reuse schemes, ….

Terrible to see this pollution - but if there are any 3G sports pitches near this river, the tyres will still find their way into the water course from microplastic run off | Ogmore: 2,000 tyres, 100 trolleys and fridge fished out of river - BBC - 🧵 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-… @SWFireandRescue @cardiffrivers @KWT_Policy @NatResWales @FootballFoundtn @FootballAssoc @Against_3G @fieldmole

Coke asked Arsen Darnay to report on what kind of bottle was the best for the environment- he painstakingly assessed the full lifecycle of metal glass and plastic packaging and came up with the conclusion:” there was no question- glass bottles” @SadrachNirere @PlasticsBeyond “...as long as they were used 15 times at least before disposal were the ecological container par excellence”. But then this happened: “Coke didn’t publish my work - why? Because they didn’t want the public to know the way they were going to go.”