Facebook’s former sustainability director and Google’s former clean energy czar Bill Weihl has launched a new venture aimed at helping staff at corporates press their employers for more ambitious climate action.
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Innovation in advanced materials offers the disruptive potential to transform the way we build our future cities – and make them greener and smarter.
André 3000 discussed his support of the Movement for Black Lives and a new line of t-shirts he’s released to benefit the cause in a rare interview published in the Blackbird Spyplane newsletter. In addition to the social movement, he discussed sustainable fashion and his favorite piece of clothing.
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In an office made from a jigsaw puzzle of reclaimed windows, a single-use fork is being fed into a transparent cube. A hand crank is turned on the side of the cube and the fork is being shredded, ready to be melted down into a filament that can be 3D-printed into a brand new product, in this case a ring with a heart. “Plastic is a wonderful material,” muses Casper van der Meer. “Our message isn’t that we’re against plastics, we just have to use it better and to recycle it.”
By Michael Stephen* chairman of the OPA…
THE WHAT? Colgate-Palmolive has begun the switch to a first-of-its-kind recyclable toothpaste tube and will share the technology.
THE DETAILS The company’s Tom’s of Maine has unveiled the first tube recognized by the Association of Plastic Recyclers. The brand will debut the tube for its Antiplaque & Whitening toothpaste and complete the switch across all of its toothpastes in 2020, when the Colgate brand will initiate the transition in Europe and North America.