Live Nation has announced that its global sustainability coalition Green Nation is committing to new environmental goals for all of its owned and operated venues and festivals.
Innovia Films is launching the first of its new range of transparent high barrier packaging films, Propafilm Strata SL. …
AKARYN Hotel Group, Thailand’s award-winning luxury boutique hotels and resort chain, is on a mission to become a single-use plastic free hotel company by June 2019.
According to a report by Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) and Surfrider Foundation Europe (SFE), EU countries have fallen behind in phasing out single-use plastic bags and preventing plastic pollution. The report entitled Still Finding Excuses?
Whilst there have been gradual changes to the availability single-use plastics, up until now, it’s all felt like a drop in the ocean. Yet, in October 2018, the European Parliament congregated to impose a complete ban on a wide-variety of single-use plastics. The ultimate aim is to prevent the excessive pollution of the ocean. We’ve all seen the footage of animals with stomachs full of plastic or encased in plastic, and it’s easy to wonder how the ocean ended up in such a terrible state of affairs.
Plastic knives just won’t cut it any longer, if the European Union has its way. The 28-nation bloc moved closer Wednesday to banning single-use straws, plates, cutlery and cotton buds after…
Air Canada announced that it will gradually eliminate all single-use plastics on its flights as well as in its workplaces starting this summer. The program will begin with the replacement of the plastic stir sticks that are served with drinks on flights with bamboo stirrers.
"Plastic isn’t the problem. It’s what we do with it," said Erik Solheim, the head of U.N.Environment…
Mayor de Blasio today announced that the City’s styrofoam ban will go into effect by January 1, 2019, following the dismissal of a lawsuit preventing the implementation of the ban.Continue Reading →…
By Mayukh Saha, Most of us must have heard of Bali in Indonesia as the ultimate beach vacation destination.However, Bali’s fame as a tourist ……
An EREK workshop on the current market and policy trends on circular economy, resource efficiency and product policy is organised in Madrid on 14 February.
Despite reports questioning the overall stability of the retail industry, businesses are continuing to thrive with e-commerce sales and fast fashion brands on the rise. The consequence of this growth,…
This CRNS seminar will provide an opportunity for members and stakeholders alike, who are passionate about both cycling and recycling, to come together and hear from different speakers as well as network and share knowledge and ideas.The main topic of this seminar will be the challenges of bike…
Two of Glasgow’s largest shopping centres have confirmed that they are supporting Cup Movement® to prevent single-use cups going to landfill or ending up as litter….
Hobart has become the first capital city in the nation to ban single-use plastics, including takeaway food containers and straws.City of Hobart councillors…
This article has been republished with permission from the South Florida News Service.Earlier this year, Coral Gables announced the prohibition of single-use plastic straws and stirrers in city fa……
There’s an elephant in the room: the market for single-use and sample-sized items is out of control. For every few items we recycle, there are surely a thousand eye cream samplers winding up in the ocean.
Ontario is weighing a ban on single-use plastics as part of a broader strategy to send less waste to landfills.
Rising environmental concern over disposable plastic items has seen “single-use” become the people’s choice for the Macquarie Dictionary word of the year.
The world can maximise the chances of avoiding dangerous climate change by moving to a circular economy, according to a report from Netherlands-based social enterprise Circle Economy launched on 22 January at Davos during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.