On a recent trip to South Africa, I often heard it said that low-income groups have “good access to bad food and bad access to good food”. While the In South Africa, levels of childhood obesity have increased to 13 per cent, more than twice the global average and the highest in the region.
Source: blogs.unicef.org
Packaging supplier Rajapack has put together a brief guide to the steps being taken to reduce consumers plastic footprint and to highlight just how much of a lasting imprint plastic has on the planet.
What’s on the outside is just as important as the inside. That’s the message that more and more consumers are sending to the mass-market beauty industry. They applaud manufacturer efforts to clean up formulas, eliminating potentially toxic ingredients. Now the focus shifts to packaging with a clarion call for sustainability. The personal care/beauty category is among one of the most serious packing-waste offenders, according to many industry officials. Consumers tend to recycle grocery containers, but toss shampoos and other personal care items in their garbage bins. Even if they do recycle, many of the products have decorations on them that must be scrubbed off to be accepted at recycling centers.
UL’s laboratories in Cabiate (Italy) and Gurgaon (India) are now accepted laboratories by ZDHC to support the implementation of the ZDHC Wastewater Guidelines in value chains and to help ensure a consistent level of quality for the wastewater and sludge test data submitted in the ZDHC Gateway – Wastewater Module. This recognition expands UL’s services dedicated to the leather industry and gave us the chance to better support brands, retailers, manufacturers and importers. We are able to offer a wide range of services to verify the compliance of leather articles, bags and footwear to global requirements.
The new ban will take effect on June 1.
The future circular economy and blockchain use cases look positive as more and more brands turn toward adopting a circular economy.
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