{"id":607,"date":"2017-02-09T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2017-02-09T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:48:09","slug":"sky-ocean-rescue-prince-charles-in-rallying-call-to-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/2017\/02\/09\/sky-ocean-rescue-prince-charles-in-rallying-call-to-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Ocean Rescue: Prince Charles in rallying call to consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sky Ocean Rescue: Prince Charles in rallying call to consumers<\/h1>\n

The Prince of Wales speaks of his hopes for the Sky Ocean Rescue campaign as he calls for “ambitious action” on plastic use.<\/p>\n

19:56, UK,<\/span>Thursday<\/span> 02<\/span> February<\/span> 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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By Rhiannon Mills, Royal Correspondent<\/p>\n

Prince Charles has urged consumers to match the commitment made by some of the world’s biggest brands to stop the devastating impact plastics are having on our oceans.<\/p>\n

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The Prince of Wales has asked businesses to come up with more innovative solutions to reuse plastic or help the consumer to recycle so items like plastic bottles can have a second, third and even fourth “life”.<\/p>\n

He held talks on Thursday with chief executives from dozens of businesses that have taken part in “seeing is believing” events hosted by two of the charities he founded – The International Sustainability Unit and Business in the Community.<\/p>\n

Calling for “practical and ambitious action”, Prince Charles spoke of his hopes for Sky’s Ocean Rescue campaign.<\/p>\n

He said it was “essential” that as well as the efforts of companies, consumers should “play their role in lessening the burden on our environment”.<\/p>\n

“And this is why I am so hopeful about the Sky ocean campaign and its ability to win hearts and minds,” Charles said.<\/p>\n

“If current trends continue the implications for the viability of the ocean ecosystem on which humankind relies so heavily are stark indeed.”<\/p>\n

Companies including Adidas, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Dell, Marks and Spencer and Unilever have been involved in the drive, and helped with a litter picking exercise on the banks of Rainham Marshes in Essex to see the scale of plastic debris washed up from the River Thames.<\/p>\n

Graham Fox, packaging operations manager for Innocent drinks, told Sky News: “I don’t know anyone within the packaging industry that deliberately goes out to say ‘I’m going to put too much packaging in the market or I’m going to over package a product’.<\/p>\n

“That’s not what happens.<\/p>\n

“It’s how we manage consumer behaviour, it’s how we manage design to make it as good as it can be.”<\/p>\n

Richard Ellis, vice president for corporate social responsibility for Walgreens Boots Alliance, said: “We’re now experimenting with cotton wool buds that you can flush down the toilet that dissolve on contact with sewage.<\/p>\n

“So in effect we are starting to say ‘if this is a consumer behaviour, how can that happen in a way that is sustainable?'”<\/p>\n

Economic considerations have at times held businesses back from coming up with new packaging concepts.<\/p>\n

Gudrun Cartwright, from Business in the Community, said: “I think one of the issues, especially with plastics recently, has been the low oil price.<\/p>\n

“So to recycle and do new things with plastics is not necessarily the best thing to do – it can be cheaper to make new plastic.”<\/p>\n

Sky’s Ocean Rescue campaign\u00a0is raising awareness of the damage being done to our marine environment worldwide by single use plastics.<\/p>\n

More than eight million tonnes of plastic is thrown away each year and washed out to sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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