Is it time we stopped buying plastic-filled Advent calendars?

A staggering 114,000 tonnes of plastic packaging goes to landfill and incinerators every Christmas,” says Sian Sutherland, co-founder of A Plastic Planet and PlasticFree.

“All those plastic gimmicks are not just for Christmas, they are for thousands of years, contaminating our oceans, our soil, our air and our own bodies.”