Carrefour to eliminate single-use plastic by 2025
Single-use plastic items will not be given to customers, excluding the on-shelf products for sale.
Source: www.khaleejtimes.com
Single-use plastic items will not be given to customers, excluding the on-shelf products for sale.
Source: www.khaleejtimes.com
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras is developing an innovative model to tackle electronic waste (e-waste) by linking stakeholders in the formal and informal economy. Called e-Source, it will be an exchange platform that will serve as an online marketplace for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and facilitate a formal supply chain between various stakeholders (buyers and sellers). This initiative is being spearheaded by Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS). The IGCS team believes that the problem of e-waste could be resolved by connecting different buyers and sellers of used and waste electronic equipment and components without compromising their interests. The e-Source initiative aims to make WEEE as a key resource in the evolution of a circular economy by establishing traceability and recovery of post-consumer e-waste in the market.
Many single-use plastic items made their way to general waste bins at Darwin markets over the weekend, despite an official council ban coming into effect.