I had a growing concern for the role that my bank is playing in contributing to the destruction of our environment, global conflicts, and human and animal rights abuses - so I decided to research this. Fortunately there is a really helpful site, Ethical Consumer, which ranks UK banks according to a set of ethical [...]
Plastic Planet by Werner Boote is a very disturbing but extremely fascinating documentary, I really recommend it. He goes around the world to see the effects of plastic and speaks to manufacturers of plastic, vested companies and government bodies. What I found most shocking is that there is a particular type of plastic called Polycarbonate. [...]
