Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

POSTS ARCHIVE

Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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2021

CAMPAIGNS

WASTE&RESOURCES

Plastic Free Takeaways

Waste

Mass Unwrap (Plastic Free Communities – Surfers Against Sewage)

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7th Feb 2020

Mass Unwrap is an awesome action that highlights the level of plastic packaging in supermarkets and puts people-pressure on them to change. Individuals, families, friends and communities can all take part.

Plastic Free GM Petition

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30th Sep 2018

Sign our petition for a future free of single-use plastics in Greater Manchester!

Join #PlasticFreeFriday

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16th Feb 2018

Every minute a truck load of plastic enters our oceans – harming turtles, whales and other much-loved animals.

Challenge your MP to support a Plastic Free Parliament. (Surfers against Sewage)

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4th Feb 2018

Over 2 million avoidable single-use plastic items were used by the Parliament in 2017. It’s time for MPs to get their house in order.

Let’s end waste from coffee cups

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5th Jan 2018

We reduced plastic bag waste so let’s do the same with coffee cups. Meanwhile, many of them have given us the impression their cups are recycled.

Help Reduce Plastic in Oceans

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23rd Nov 2017

Plastic is choking our oceans and killing marine life. Every year we throw away millions of tonnes of plastic. And vast amounts of it finds its way into the ocean.

Take our coffee cup survey

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8th Aug 2016

The response to the petition to end coffee cup waste has been huge. We are piling on the pressure for action. But we don’t want to leave it at that. I’d love to know what you think should come next …

Why can’t we recycle coffee cups like we recycle plastic bags?

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30th Jul 2016

We’ve reduced plastic bag waste – let’s do the same for coffee cup waste and recycle takeaway coffee cups. Coffee chains are being hypocritcal when they claim their cups are recyclable.

Let’s end waste from coffee cups

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Did you know up to 2.5 billion coffee cups are chucked away every year? That’s a lot of forest going in the bin. And while some cafes do their bit to promote re-usable and recyclable cups, action is needed to …

Timmermans, stop the waste!

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9th Jul 2015

We waste 200 tonnes of e-waste in Europe every day. In Europe, we throw away 200,000 kilograms of electronic waste every day. Each day that Frans Timmermans waits to introduce a new bill for a circular economy, our mountain of …

Ask Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik for higher recycling targets.

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4th Sep 2013

We have just six days to call on the EU to help us all recycle more. European Ministers are reviewing targets for recycling rates across Europe. Right now the target is for 50 per cent of our waste to be recycled by …

Stop the waste! Email Environment Minister Owen Paterson

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16th Jun 2013

Did you know that Europe buries or burns 60 per cent of our valuable resources? This is a shocking waste of both materials and money, and causes a devastating effect on the environment. We want to stop Europe just throwing …

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