Whole Foods Market has announced they are officially banning plastic straws across the US, UK and Canada as of July – following in the wake of their plastic bag ban and alongside leading supermarkets Coles and Woolworths in Australia.
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The luxury brand’s three-year partnership with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) will create a sustainability leadership programme for employees and accelerate R&D for innovative ideas and prototypes. Chanel will also sponsor students from underrepresented backgrounds for CISL’s Masters in Sustainability Leadership. The news follows LVMH’s announcement earlier this month that it is extending its existing partnership with Central Saint Martins to encourage innovation in the fields of regenerative design and biodiversity.
LG Chem has newly added sustainability to its evaluation items for raw materials suppliers amid a growing need for stable management of the supply chain, the company said Thursday….
“Ultimate conscious and sustainable sunglasses and gear”…
Food and beverage giant Nestlé has committed £1.59bn to source food-grade recycled plastics to be used in its packaging, alongside a pledge to cut the amount of virgin plastics it sources by a third.
“We’re not going to recycle our way out of this problem,” the company has said.
Researchers at NREL have devised a way of using discarded single use plastic to make new products. It could keep much of the world’s plastic trash out of landfills and the world’s oceans.