This is a common question we get asked, and when we first started noticing plastic bottles and bottle fragments washed up on the beaches near us, we asked it too – how exactly do plastic bottles end up in the ocean? If you live in the UK, or any developed country, and you’re careful to make sure your single-use plastic bottles …
Bottled water is the world’s bestselling soft drink. In the UK alone, we glugged 2.4 billion litres of the stuff in 2015, which rose to 2.8 billion litres in 2016 – an alarming upward trend. Although staying hydrated is good for us, achieving this by downing 22 billion plastic water bottles globally each year is decidedly not good for our planet. …