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13 OCTOBER 2010: Plastic pollution in the oceans

Plastic pollution in the oceans

DAVID DE ROTHSCHILD Founder, The Plastiki & Adventure Ecology
PETER DAVIS Director-General British Plastics Federation
DR SIMON BOXALL National Oceanography Centre
Chaired by David Shukman, BBC science and environment correspondent

Our throw away society is polluting large areas of the world's oceans with plastics, threatening marine life and food chains.

How did it get there? What are the practical solutions? Is it time to re-evaluate waste as a resource?

Limited tickets are available to RGS-IBG Schools members.
(tickets limited to x5 per school, further tickets can be bought at £7 each)

To book call our Events Office on 020 7 591 3100

1 DECEMBER 2010: Can the UK ever be sustainable?

SIR STUART ROSE
Chairman, Marks & Spencer
RT HON HILARY BENN MP Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
ANDY HOBSBAWM
Co-founder, Do The Green Thing

Our way of life is placing an increasing burden on the planet, but how realistic are visions of a sustainable future? With the UK aspiring to achieve more with less, who will help turn theory into practice?

Limited tickets are available to RGS-IBG Schools members.
(tickets limited to x5 per school, further tickets can be bought at £7 each)

To book call our Events Office on 020 7 591 3100