Canada plans to ban ‘harmful’ single-use plastics by 2021
Canada will ban many single-use plastic items by 2021, including bags, straws, cutlery and stirring sticks, to cut harmful waste damaging the country’s ecosystems.
Source: www.cnn.com
Canada will ban many single-use plastic items by 2021, including bags, straws, cutlery and stirring sticks, to cut harmful waste damaging the country’s ecosystems.
Source: www.cnn.com
Last week, CAPS we showcased eight projects at the Web Summit in Lisbon, a huge tech conference that, with around 70,000 attendees, claims to be the world’s biggest gathering of entrepreneurs. In the Social Innovation Village, CAPS exhibited: ChiC, DECODE, MAZI, Grassroot Wavelenghts, Crowd4Roads and Commonfare.
Plastic has got to be both a blessing and curse for this planet. However, lately, with the amount of plastic that’s getting accumulated and dumped, it has been causing some serious damage to the environment. However, it looks like researchers have developed the perfect thing to combat this problem. They’ve developed a cocktail of plastic-eating enzymes which can actually degrade plastic in a matter of days — something that normally takes hundreds of years to degrade. The enzyme cocktail includes PETase and MHETase. These are produced by a type of bacteria that feeds on PET plastic (often found in plastic bottles) dubbed Ideonella Sakaiensis.
Over 5K illegal ewaste processing units, employing more than 50K workers, are operating right under the government’s nose in the Delhi NCR.
What is the wine industry doing to become more sustainable and reduce environmental loads?
News industry : The issue of sustainability took center stage in the fashion industry in the year 2018, with multiple brands making pragmatic steps to addressing their environmental impact. We take a look at some of the biggest strides.
Italian luxury outerwear brand Moncler has been crowned the “industry leader” in the textiles, apparel and luxury goods sector of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI).