With a huge grocery chain like Kroger announcing a phaseout of plastic shopping bags, we may finally be turning a corner to a more European, and even Asian, style of shopping totes.
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Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos’ The Blue Trees is an outdoor art installation that uses the process of transformation to raise awareness about global deforestation and climate change. This week, on-site artist Wes Bruce and volunteers applied blue pigment to select trees on PEM’s campus using an environmentally safe colorant. This temporary, performative art piece in Salem marks the 27th installation of this internationally acclaimed project.
The move is expected to keep 225 million plastic bags out of circulation each year.
The European parliament has voted to ban single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers as part of a sweeping law against plastic waste that despoils beaches and pollutes oceans.
Beer brand Tennent’s has announced an investment of £14.2m in sustainability initiatives as it plans to scrap single-use plastic in its packaging by 2021.