Global Search Seeks Alternatives to Single-use Plastics
Registration is now open for the Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge, a partnership between National Geographic and Sky Ocean Ventures.
Source: www.waste360.com
Registration is now open for the Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge, a partnership between National Geographic and Sky Ocean Ventures.
Source: www.waste360.com
Bristol continues to build on its ambition to be carbon neutral by 2030 with a highly sustainable development of 50 affordable homes currently underway.
The Amazon and the Arctic are burning, Greenland and Antarctica are melting, and longstanding concerns such as plastic waste, air pollution and water security that don’t seem to be getting better. How do you stay positive?
Russia may completely ban the use of plastic dinnerware in the near future, according to the Minister of National Resources and Environment Dmitry Kobylkin.
Palm oil can be found in half of all packaged products, as well as many consumer goods. Learn about the significant misconceptions about palm oil and how to solve the problem of sustainability versus growing demand.
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Andy will explain what the issues are with palm oil relating to modern slavery, land grabbing and deforestation, which impacts wildlife habitat, including endangered orangutan populations. It is impossible to sustain the global requirement without palm oil, but if the issues around it are not dealt with properly, it could drive the orangutan into extinction. Andy will present a solution which will satisfy retailers, suppliers and consumers.
The UNECE region leads the world in producing, value-adding and transforming its natural resources for socio-economic consumption. However, these resources are often finite. Their production and consumption require enormous energy and other resource inputs, and lead to environmental degradation and increased vulnerability to climate change – effects that are compounded on the region’s increasingly urbanized populations. Transitioning to a more circular economy and sustainable use of natural resources is crucial for achieving the SDGs.
Henkel explains how to drive sustainability and diversity…