Aldi Set To Replace 12.5 Million Single Use Plastic Bags With Compostable Bags

MEPs warn that the ‘take-make-dispose’ economy must end and call for measures against greenwashing and false environmental claims. In order to achieve a carbon-neutral, environmentally sustainable and fully circular economy by 2050, MEPs have called for clear policy objectives in the EU. The Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted its report on the EU Circular Economy Action Plan, with 66 votes in favour, six against and seven abstentions. The plan, which was published in March 2020, is one of the main blocks of the European Green Deal and includes initiatives along the entire life cycle of products from design to consumption.

During an Erasmus philosophy course in Barcelona, I came across the philosophy of animal rights activist Peter Singer and realised that there was a huge ethical problem – around slaughtering animals for food- about which little was being done. This insight stayed with me for years. After leaving McKinsey I planned to take a year off, but I quickly met Daan Luining and Mark Kotter. Daan had a great idea, Mark had a distinctive technology and I had the commercial insight to do something with the ethical problem. Together we founded Meatable. Industrial meat farming is unsustainable.