'Ditch cling film and switch to soap': 10 easy ways to reduce your plastics use in 2019

Guardian environment correspondent Sandra Laville explains why we can't recycle our way out of the plastics problem, and suggests ways to reduce your footprint Plastic has become perhaps the most demonised material of the last 12 months, as the scale of pollution in the oceans becomes increasingly apparent.With dire predictions that if nothing is done there will be more plastic in the seas by weight than fish by 2050, it has become evident that we cannot recycle our way out of the plastic problem. Continue reading...