Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been involved in a few food-related campaigns since leaving River Cottage.
He had a campaign to stop discards of fish from trawlers called Fish Fight, which was successful in the EU, and another to try to get us choosing free range chicken.
Earlier this week was the first episode of his new documentary on Plastic, which has the amazing statistic that there are almost 20 billion pieces of single use plastic stored away in households in the UK. He also wrote an accompanying piece in 'The Guardian', focussing on the role of supermarkets.
I showed episode 1 to one of my groups and they were amazed...
The Guardian piece here suggests that
He had a campaign to stop discards of fish from trawlers called Fish Fight, which was successful in the EU, and another to try to get us choosing free range chicken.
Earlier this week was the first episode of his new documentary on Plastic, which has the amazing statistic that there are almost 20 billion pieces of single use plastic stored away in households in the UK. He also wrote an accompanying piece in 'The Guardian', focussing on the role of supermarkets.
I showed episode 1 to one of my groups and they were amazed...
The Guardian piece here suggests that
This brilliant #WarOnPlastic show estimates that 19.5bn bits of plastic are in our homes right now. My project predicts that we throw away 295bn per year. Divide one by the other, it would mean the items in our homes right now would last just under a month... not unrealistic pic.twitter.com/ddJdhtPqUS— Everyday Plastic (@PlasticEveryday) 10 June 2019
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