The world is having another go at agreeing on a plastics treaty. Negotiators from 180 countries have gathered in Geneva to try to decide what to do. Most of the news media use the language of crisis: France24 talks of a ‘global crisis’ of ‘life-threatening waste’, the BBC and ITV both use the word crisis Read More…
Category: foil
Brattea fatua
A story about balloons has been brewing for quite a while. I’ve been promising myself to write something ever since I wrote the story about foiletti and my slightly more ranty but factual post about foiletti and balloons, and there have been various times when I’ve said to myself that I’ve got enough photos of Read More…
Sic transit gloria
I know I will get accused of being a spoilsport, but: can we please ban foiletti – and their cousins, metallic party balloons? Governments in the UK have recently moved to ban “single use” plastics. The Scottish Government has positionined itself as leading the way in this respect. As part of the fanfare surrounding Read More…
