For the past few years we have gatecrashed the BPF’s self-congratulatory annual ball in a five-star central London hotel, where past keynote after dinner speakers have included Ed Balls, Clive Anderson and the Reverend Richard Coles.
The British Plastics Federation is the UK’s leading trade association for the plastics and rubber industries. The UK is a world leader in world destruction – we have the second-highest plastic production per capita, and we are home to a vast petrochemical industry.
This is a trade association has actively lobbied the government against reductions to primary plastic production. But if we don’t reduce primary plastic production drastically, an already profound crisis will deepen.
Nothing to celebrate
For the past few years we have gatecrashed the BPF’s self-congratulatory annual ball in a five-star central London hotel, where past keynote after dinner speakers have included Ed Balls, Clive Anderson and the Reverend Richard Coles.
But there’s nothing to celebrate. 90 years ago, the seas and our bodies were free of plastic. Since then, we’re rapidly approaching the time when there is more plastic by weight in the ocean than fish. Microplastics are in our blood and tissue. Every single item made of plastic is eventually going to become an item of waste that we can’t deal with properly.
We will continue to put industry lobbyists and their government and NGO enablers on the map and under the spotlight.
