Read the full story at Refinery29. There are lots of little lifestyle tweaks we can make that will ultimately have a big impact on the environment: like switching to a reusable water bottle or a BYOC (bring-your-own-coffee) mug.
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In an email to Sustain member the Organic Trade Board, the Department of Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) announces recognition of the EU for trade in organics, but only until end of 2021. …
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The UK Government has been hinting that, in a post-Brexit future, the UK might move away from weight-based recycling rates as the key measure of waste management environmental performance. So what alternatives are there, and why might they be preferable? Weight and see The most common criticism of weight-based recycling rate targets is that they don’t adequately incentivise making waste management interventions further up the waste hierarchy.
Stuffstr works with clothing brands to pull data on all the products in their inventory (going back 5 years) into their platform, so that when a consumer no longer wants the item, they can search for it and instantly see what the company will pay to buy that item back.
NSW will become the last state to ban singe-use plastic bags, although the new policy will still be months away.
Momentum is building in the war against single-use plastics. A slew of major companies—including SeaWorld parks, American Express, cruise company Royal Caribbean, IKEA, A&W Canada and Burger King UK—have pledged to eliminate items such as plastic drinking straws, stirrers, lids and bags in efforts…