Print Solutions Green SolutionsStora Enso has appointed Annette Stube as executive vice president, head of Sustainability and a member of the Group Leade…
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Theresa Carter launched an online petition calling on Target Stores to eliminate single-use plastic bags that has gathered more than 310,000 signatures. She explains how she got the petition started.
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.”
It’s Canadian Environment Week and together GreenStep Solutions and the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) are excited to announce the launch of the Sustainable Tourism 2030 Pledge. The Sustainable Tourism 2030 Pledge is a new initiative that encourages tourism businesses and destinations across Canada, and globally, to commit to measuring and improving their sustainability performance each year between now and 2030. Developed in Canada by GreenStep, the Sustainable Tourism 2030 Pledge offers a free online assessment and sustainability score, helping tourism businesses and destinations self-assess on a broad range of sustainability criteria.
A House of Commons committee has written to the chairs of all football leagues across the UK to urge them to stop using single-use plastics. This call for action follows the Premier League’s decision to introduce measures to eliminate this material in its operations and supply chains over the next…
Destination New Zealand has pledged to put environmental and cultural values at the heart of tourism pursuits, where for the first time, its NTO is trudging forward in partnership with the conservation ministry.
Information relating to Introduction to Sustainable Water Management, Flood and Coastal Risk Management, Environment and Development and Political Ecology, Tuesday 24 November, 5:00pm…