Rethinking Global Plastics at the London Design Festival
(WorldNews Environment)

The London Design Festival is an annual event attracting half a million visitors to a diverse celebration of design. Taking place this year from September 14 to 22, the event is a platform for telling hundreds of design stories. One of those narratives - perhaps one of the most important - addresses the need to reduce ocean plastics. Design and technology can help create a more sustainable world, one free of single-use plastic Ben Evans conceived the festival with Sir John Sorrell in 2003 and believes that now, more than ever, design plays a vital role in creating sustainable solutions to big challenges like plastic pollution. `Plastics have become an intrinsic part of our lives and many...