Day: June 26, 2019

Washington State Ferries released a two-year action plan to improve air quality, protect orca whales and reduce emissions and waste.

The six-month accelerator program seeks ideas in the plastics, energy storage and recycling value chains.

Corrugated and paper packaging company Smurfit Kappa recently released its latest Sustainable Development Report, which details the steps is taking to reach a goal of full sustainability.

Since its launch in 2017, City to Sea’s Refill campaign has spurred dozens of big and small businesses to offer free water bottle refills. To mark National Refill Day 2019, edie explores the impact of the campaign to date.

It’s a fact: People like stuff. The more stuff they have, the better they think they feel. That means, in only a few decades—when the world’s population is e…

Previous attempts to limit plastic bags in the city have failed.

Day one will be graced by the minister of the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma…

The global focus on plastic pollution isn’t a distraction from other planetary issues.

According to an investigation by RECOUP into the introduction of a deposit return scheme (DRS) in the UK, it believes that the collection and recycling of non-drink packaging still needs to be transformed.

What happens to resource efficiency, recycling and waste management in a world where disownership is becoming the new normal?

The two new pieces of legislation mean that there are now five US states that have approved bans on single-use plastic bags.

The world’s waste crisis is spurring innovations to create circular economies that generate zero waste and zero carbon.

Burberry has added two new science-based sustainability targets concerning greenhouse gas emissions to its responsibility strategy for 2022. …

Plan to use ocean plastic is accompanied by launch of new collection consisting of six Re-Nylon backpacks…

A group of leading business have launched a global initiative aimed at jumpstarting the plastics circular economy.

New brand By Humankind aims to eliminate plastic waste through more sustainable products such as refillable deodorants and dehydrated mouthwash.

A STUDY carried out by Basel  Action Network, BAN, a global body fighting for a cleaner environment, in 2016, showed that about 500,000 used computers 75 per cent of which are junks and unserviceable, were imported into the country annually.

Supermarket announces a refreshed strategy focused on boosting its online and own brand offerings.

A strawberry-flavoured vodka made by distilling the discarded whey from cheese-making, an apple vodka flavoured with 14 varietals of “non-GMO” apples and an organic gin and vodka from Speyside. All making their drinks industry bow in the last few weeks, these new products underline emphatically…

Rafting is fun for people, but what about rivers? Five rafting outfitters talk about how they keep the river clean and help protect the environment.