23 Jun 2020
This post outlines a simple ‘three pillar’ framework to help realise the often untapped potential of behaviour change. Pillar 1 is private personal action in the form of a new behaviour which stays in the private domain. Pillar 2 is where that behaviour is made available in the public domain through informal channels such as […]
09 Jun 2020
Chris Rose ‘You may have noticed that despite various ‘bans’ on plastic bags there are quite a lot of media and social media stories in which plastic is compared with alternative materials and plastic is found to be ‘greener’, for example plastic bags compared to cotton bags, or plastic compared to glass or steel bottles. […]
12 Mar 2018
Posted on March 7, 2018 by Chris Rose An overwhelming majority of the UK public wants to see plastic phased out except for essential uses, according to a survey of over 1000 people reported here. 83.9% agreed that ‘Because of the pollution/harm it causes, plastic should be phased out except for essential uses’ in a nationally representative survey […]
29 Dec 2017
Communications and strategy challenges of the plastics Issue – Chris Rose Any campaigns taking on the plastic crisis face some significant communications and strategy challenges. These include getting rid of the L-word, the visual ‘less is more’ problem (debris > microplastic), the communications legacy effect and potential motivational dead-ends of beach clean-ups, and the inability […]
18 Dec 2017
Chris Rose in a detailed report highlights how the plastics industry have side tracked this issue and why we now have problem on this scale. THE most thoughtful report on the plastics pollution problem to date. Why We Suddenly Have A Plastics Crisis The UN has acknowledged that we have a ‘plastics crisis’ and on December […]
16 Oct 2017
A Beautiful If Evil Strategy – Chris Rose Posted on September 27, 2017 by tochrisrose ‘As the planet fills up with plastic and the EU ponders its new ‘plastics strategy’, is the great re-framing and concern co-option strategy of the plastics industry finally going to run out of road? The threat of invisible omnipresent micro-plastics may force policy-makers […]