Justin Trudeau Uses 9-Year-Old’s Straw Stats To Sell Ban on Single-Use Plastics
A press release announcing the Canadian government’s intention to ban straws and other single-use plastics cites a long debunked statistic….
Source: reason.com
A press release announcing the Canadian government’s intention to ban straws and other single-use plastics cites a long debunked statistic….
Source: reason.com
Backed by new funding, United Kingdom-based sustainable food and beverage packaging startup Notpla, maker of edible water pods, is focusing on expanding into other markets and applications, according to a profile in Fast Company last week.
At OMRON, our aim is to contribute to the creation of a sustainable society and enhance corporate value, by using our OMRON Principles to solve social issues through our business activities. In order to make this a reality, we feel it is very important to identify the material sustainability issues upon which OMRON should focus, incorporate these into medium to long-term strategies and then establish specific initiatives, and through our business activities, solve these problems. Based upon this, we identified and set targets for 15 sustainability issues under the VG2.0 medium-term management plan which started in fiscal 2017, from the viewpoints of stakeholders and OMRON. In fiscal 2018, OMRON established a company-wide management structure aimed at achieving our year 2020 Sustainability Goals, and accelerated implementation of our initiatives.
Draft regulations place greater responsibility on producers of lighting, electronic, paper and packaging products FRANCOIS JOUBERT AND JULIA RUSHTON It is estimated that South Africa generates approximately 108 million tonnes of waste per year. As much as 90% of this waste (with an estimated value of more than R25.2 billion) is dumped or disposed of in landfill sites across the country, which are rapidly filling up and approaching closure… READ
Owen Sound’s operations committee is recommending council not move towards prohibiting single-use plastics at this time, but instead await a plan by the federal government to enact a national ban by 2021 at the earliest.
Social sustainability is often overlooked in discussions about sustainable development. Christof Burgbacher in this interview illustrates why we should pay it more attention.
As Guyana begins to exploit its vast oil reserves, are its unique eco-tourism draws under threat? Sarah Reid heads to South America to find out.