plastic bags

With just a year to go, what progress?

By Lady Vervaine Aiming to stick some more feathers in his cap of remarkable achievements, Boris Johnson has announced aggressive targets for London’s waste including the ambition to be plastic bag free for the Olympics and to send zero waste to landfill by 2025. London …

Plastic bombastic abounds this week with the opening of “See How You Feel”, an exhibition championing the humble plastic bag. Created by Berlin-based artist Dodi Reifenberg, this multi-coloured show focuses its concerns exclusively on plastic bags as a valuable and somewhat outcast aesthetic, rather than …

Disappointment of the day comes from London Councils who have withdrawn the ban the shopping bag Bill which received so much support from Londoners. Instead, they hope that the government’s Climate Change Bill will have a bigger environmental impact, encouraging a voluntary reduction in plastic …

Harrygate escalates: Prince pulled out of Afghanistan, whilst the media whip selves into frenzy over involvement in the news blackout/leak. Winegate averted (for now): Winehouse will not face charges in connection with husband’s alleged attempts to pervert justice. Guess which city is the world’s museum …

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …

What we learned this weekend whilst you were enjoying all the fun of the fair: Weird statistic of the week: Emmas from Sutton and Evas from Kingston should not be allowed behind the wheel. How on earth do they get these stats? Two arrests have …

Whilst we, the London punters, expressed overwhelming support for action on throw-away shopping bags last week the big high street retailers have been mewing at the London Assembly opposing an outright ban. Under DEFRA’s new waste strategy the major UK supermarkets and other large retailers …

When they’re not being re-imagined as metaphorical objects in overrated films, plastic bags are unsightly things. A familiar bane of London’s landscape, the “urban tumbleweed” is an ecological nightmare. We all know that we’re supposed to ditch them in favour of reusables; yet 13 billion …