{"id":141779,"date":"2025-09-16T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141779\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:05:11","slug":"city-to-sea-announces-closure-after-10-years-of-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141779\/","title":{"rendered":"City to Sea announces closure after 10 years of campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we started out back in 2015, I couldn&#8217;t have imagined the scale of the impact we&#8217;d have in the fight against single-use plastic,&#8221; said Ms Fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Announcing its closure on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citytosea.org.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website, external<\/a>, the organisation issued a call to governments and industries to &#8220;be on the right side of history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It pointed to plastic treaty negotiations which took place in Geneva, in August, and were attended by delegates from 183 countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgpddpldleo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but collapsed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some countries, including the UK, had been pushing for curbs to plastic production in the treaty, but other nations opposed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City to Sea&#8217;s chief executive, Jane Martin, said: &#8220;A rebalancing of power is needed, amplifying voices of those most impacted by single-use plastic pollution rather than those profiting from it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;Small, agile charities like City to Sea cannot de-risk this transition for government and business alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Announcing its closure, a spokesperson said the organisation will be working with partners to secure a &#8220;long-term legacy&#8221; of its programmes and campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;When we started out back in 2015, I couldn&#8217;t have imagined the scale of the impact we&#8217;d have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-141779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}