Kering Awards Three Chinese Start-ups for Sustainability
The new award underscores China’s outsized importance as the largest producer and consumer for the fashion industry.
Source: wwd.com
The new award underscores China’s outsized importance as the largest producer and consumer for the fashion industry.
Source: wwd.com
A group of Greenpeace Africa volunteers in Cape Town has started an ambitious campaign to enforce a ban on single-use plastic items. The organisation is calling on South Africa’s top political parties to adopt the ban in their election manifestos ahead of this year’s presidential election.
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, arrived in New York last week on a solar-powered and emissions-free yacht after a 15-day voyage across the Atlantic. Along with her urgent message on climate change, Thunberg brings something that not many Americans are thinking about right now: flight shame. Thunberg is a non-flyer. She quit flying because of the greenhouse gases that are emitted during flights. Airplanes burn fossil-fuel based jet fuel and air travel is responsible for some 2 percent to 5 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, depending on whose numbers you use.
Earlier this month, China announced a new five-year plan to eventually ban single-use plastic waste in the entire country.
Single-use plastics will be phased out or significantly reduced as part of a newly outlined sustainability strategy by The Star Entertainment Group.
Pirani launched their Kickstarter and exceeded their goal by 20-percent within 24 hours. Instead of wasting solo cups, grab a reusable stainless steel cup.
Veramaris has opened its new algal oil production facility in Blair, Nebraska today.