The Real Bread Campaign urges people to take action now to help ensure that our food shopping options during and after the COVID-19 crisis will still include local, independent food producers and shops.
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Representatives from nearly all Atlantic Coast Conference member schools gathered in Raleigh for an inaugural conference on sports and sustainability.
With help from UBRI, UPenn is embracing sustainability with blockchain technology by measuring individual energy consumption.
Most plastics carry a recycling label, but few are convenient to recycle in Switzerland. For 30 days, swissinfo.ch journalist Susan Misicka saved all of her plastic garbage. She filled four shopping bags, but found that not even half of the waste could be recycled. Is it as bad as it sounds? Currently, the Swiss collect 80,000 tonnes of plastic for recycling – mainly PET drink bottlesExternal link, plus milk, shampoo, detergent and other high-quality bottles. In theory, Switzerland could recycle an additional 112,000 tonnes of plastic per year. Put another way, everyone in Switzerland could collect and recycle another 14kg of plastic per year. But there is no federal system and few processing plants for recycling plastic in Switzerland.
Sales in plant-based foods show no sign of slowing in Europe. But booming demand raises complex issues, from the nutritional profile of formulations through to the sustainability of ingredient sourcing.
Keep your household waste and toxicity in check, with our edit of sustainable, locally-designed bathroom and self-care products.
While the goals may seem idealistic, Intel says it has managed to achieve many of its 2020 ambitions, including recycling 90 percent of its trash and drastically reducing toxic waste sent to landfills.