Mapped: Where Are the World’s Most Sustainable Companies?
In the race towards a more clean and green future, many corporations are playing an active role. Where are the world’s most sustainable companies located?
Source: www.visualcapitalist.com
In the race towards a more clean and green future, many corporations are playing an active role. Where are the world’s most sustainable companies located?
Source: www.visualcapitalist.com
Is burning plastic waste a good idea? No. TreeHugger has long been a fan of Elizabeth Royte, author of Bottlemania and Garbage Land: On the secret trail of trash. She knows her stuff when it comes to single-use plastic. As part of a National Geographic series on Planet or Plastic, she looks at the question: Is burning plastic waste a good idea? She notes that the Europeans think so, and consider it a renewable resource: It considers energy generated from burning any kind of carbon-based municipal waste renewable and thus eligible for subsidies. But plastics aren’t renewable in the sense that wood, paper, or cotton are. Plastics don’t grow from sunlight: We make them from fossil fuels extracted from the ground, and each step in that process has the potential to pollute.
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Earlier this month, China announced a new five-year plan to eventually ban single-use plastic waste in the entire country.
razil needs to cut illegal deforestation by between 15% and 20% every year to eliminate it by 2030, Vice President Hamilton Mourao said on Friday, referring to a goal set by President Jair Bolsonaro in a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden this week. Bolsonaro is set to attend a U.S. climate summit hosted by Biden next week amid international pressure to slash deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, which surged to a 12-year high in 2020 as an area 14 times the size of New York City was destroyed, government data show.