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The UCL School of Pharmacy is celebrating its 180th anniversary (Figure1).  This article discusses how its library has supported the School in its teaching, research and public engagement.  There is an overview of the challenges and opportunities the library has faced with regards space, collection management, information literacy and non-traditional support, such as wellbeing and sustainability. Post-COVID developments, AI and the utilisation of the library’s important historic collections and archive are also described.

Ocean plastic waste is an urgent environmental crisis, subject to growing media and policy scrutiny. We use Q-methodology to assess stakeholder perspectives on management practices, finding four emergent discourses concerning: environmental citizenship, global policy responsibility, health prioritisation and economic incentivisation. We find stakeholder consensus on the impacts, levels of media coverage and need for action -creating a 'policy window' for strong environmental governance. Yet there remains disparity over who should lead pro-environmental action, and whether consumer behaviour will genuinely change over time. Visual communication emerges as a popular tool to build social capacity for change. It behoves policymakers to learn from other visual behaviour change initiatives, such as those on cigarette packaging, to stimulate long-term public engagement. By combining visual communication with taxes and levies to alter demand-side management for single use plastic products, we suggest that longer-term sustainable behaviour change can be achieved.