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In what an industry watchdog called a message to false advertisers, a federal judge Tuesday ordered the owners of the Northwest’s largest electronic waste recycler to spend more than two years in prison.

At the start of the decade, many global leaders lauded impact investing as a panacea to the $2.5 trillion funding gap the world needed to meet the SDGs. Now, in the midst of a global pandemic, does it hold the same promise? We spoke to Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) about the power and potential of impact investing throughout and beyond the crisis.

Plastic trash used to be a simple problem. Bundle it up, put it on a freighter, and ship it off to China. That worked really well until China stopped allowing plastic waste into the country.All of sudden, the countries producing all that trash had no idea what to do with it…

Vietnam denim manufacturer Saitex is sticking with plans to open up its first U.S. operation in the City of Angels. With American clients like J.Crew, Everlane, Target, Outerknown and more, the denim heavy hitter has been plotting a stateside move since before the pandemic struck.

Plastic bag bans have proliferated along South Carolina’s coast, but now Richland County may pass one of its own. I would be the first inland county to do so.