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Rubbermaid®, a leader in home organization and food storage solutions, announced today a partnership with international recycling leader,…
English Dictionary compiler and publisher, Collins, has selected the term ‘single-use’ as this year’s Word of the Year.
The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. Globally, cancer is already the second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases.
In the margins of the fifth UN Environment Assembly, the EU, teaming up with the United Nations Environment Programme and in coordination with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, this week launched the Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency (GACERE). Part of the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan adopted by the European Commission in March 2020 as part of the European Green Deal. The circular economy offers opportunities for spurring innovation and making the transition more equitable by creating green jobs and lowering environmental impacts. Launching the Alliance, Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, said: “The transition to a resource-efficient, clean and circular economy is increasingly recognised as a must to address the ecological crises the world is confronted with.
The Other Bar is partnering with the UN and leveraging the blockchain for their sustainable chocolate bar to make the positive effects apparent to the customer.
Conversion of glycerol to acrylic acid represents an emerging application in transforming waste biomass to valuable products in chemical industry.However, achieving almost perfect atomic efficiency and intrinsic zero-waste generation still remain a grand challenge to meet stricter regulations on …