Joanna Yarrow discusses plastic bags on GMTV

Following the announcement that 33 London councils are supporting a bill that would stop retailers in the capital from handing out free shopping bags, Beyond Green Director Joanna appeared on GMTV to welcome the news and talk about the environmental effects of making and disposing the billions of plastic bags we use each year. She also spoke about other initiatives across the UK and worldwide, and the easy alternatives that exist to plastic bags. Beyond Green also helped GMTV devise an online quiz about energy efficiency in the home.

Posted 19 November 2008 by joanna

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Supermarket packaging – why IS there so much of it?

Joanna Yarrow presented a feature on Five News looking at the problem of supermarket packaging, and just why there is so much of it. The feature highlighted how the excess packaging of food and household products creates vast quantities of unnecessary plastic waste, the majority of which ends up in landfill rather than being recycled.

Posted 29 May 2008 by joanna

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