Have you resolved to take action for oceans in 2019? Isabel Thomas, author of This Book is Not Rubbish, lists five pollutants we can easily avoid, from bags and bottles… to burgers. Ban bags Plastic carrier bags are used for an average of 12 minutes. It’s completely daft to make them from plastic designed to last 500 years. Yet up to a trillion single-use plastic bags are still used around the world each year – that’s almost two MILLION a minute! Each bag is the start of a sa

Several years ago, the activist group Surfers for Cetaceans came to my hometown, Newquay, for the UK mainland premiere of their documentary Minds in the Water. I read about the film in the local press and I was intrigued by the notion of a group of surfers travelling the world at their own expense to campaign for marine protection. I’d recently had a baby and hadn’t been out in the evening for over a year, but I was determined to meet the group and when my friend cancelled at

This is not a new story. Some of you may have heard it before. However, all good stories are worth hearing twice, so…. There has been a great storm at sea, and all along the beach there are starfish washed up, stranded high above the tide line. Not just one or two, or five or ten. Thousands and thousands of starfish, starfish coloured, orange and purple and red and yellow. All of them stuck. All of them needing to get back to the sea. Now, also there are two friends walking a