Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: Retailers have already been reeling under the lockdown impact for over two months with little to no revenue to sustain operations.
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Nearly 50 years after South Australians were able to receive a partial refund for recycling bottles and cans, Tasmania is finally catching up. Key points: Tasmania’s container refund scheme is set to begin operating in the first half of 2023. Under the scheme, consumers will receive a 10-cent refund for every eligible container they recycle through a refund point. The location of refund points will be determined in coming months. Previously promised to be introduced in 2022, Tasmania’s container refund scheme is now set to come in during the first half of 2023. Drink containers are one of the most commonly littered items in Tasmania, with a survey conducted in 2018 finding they made up about 45 per cent of litter in the state, by volume. The state government hopes the incoming container refund scheme will reduce that. Tasmania’s scheme will look very similar to other states’ schemes, as the aim is for a nationally consistent approach.
Global packaging and paper group Mondi released its interactive 2019 Sustainable Development report last week.
Concrete is the most used material on Earth. As materials expert Chris Cheeseman, from Imperial College London, explains: if you could put everything in the world made from concrete in one pile and everything made from other materials in a pile next to it, ‘the concrete pile would dwarf the other pile’.
It’s an unappreciated wonder material. Made from stones, sand and water, its key ingredient, cement, performs some chemical trickery that turns grey, runny slurry into solid rock, in whatever shape we choose. From plant pots to Ancient Rome’s Colosseum, it created the modern world.
With market drivers showing the need to implement a more circular economy for plastics quickly, Unilever is on the case.
Supporting Henkel’s progress in sustainability, the company closed the investment into Circularity European Growth Fund I LP, an impact fund managed by Circularity Capital. With the investment…| January 8, 2019…
Hi Jamie, thanks for your time! What do you do? I’ve been a Senior Technician at the Howard Assembly Room, a music venue in Leeds, since 2015, working for the Opera North Company. We have all sorts of musical acts – Folk, World Music, Classical, Classical Indian Music – all kinds of stuff!