Norwegian Says Bye-Bye to Single Use Plastics
Norwegian Cruise Line has teamed with JUST Goods, Inc, a sustainable packaging company, to eliminate plastic bottles and more on board their fleet.
Source: www.porthole.com
Norwegian Cruise Line has teamed with JUST Goods, Inc, a sustainable packaging company, to eliminate plastic bottles and more on board their fleet.
Source: www.porthole.com
3R initiative launched today by Danone, Veolia, Nestle and Tetra Pak will promote market-based systems to tackling waste…
Supply chain and logistics news…
Bridgestone EMIA’s Original Equipment (OE) business achieved new successes in 2020, as the organisation continued to deliver on its standing as a sustainable solutions company.
As a valued and trusted partner of the world’s leading car manufacturers, Bridgestone has continuously grown its OE business in recent years thanks to its strengths in innovation, agility and expertise. With a commitment to always going the extra mile, Bridgestone EMIA’s OE business has provided over 80 new original equipment fitments to 13 car manufacturers, including Mercedes, BMW and Audi, across more than 30 different vehicle models in 2020.
A report by analyst Euler Hermes Global says, the European textile and apparel (T&A) is expected to recover from its current gloom and grow by 15 per cent in 2021. The report attributes this optimism to the liquidity provided by central banks and governments to ailing companies. Also, new job-retention schemes will provide a substantial relief to the labor-intensive industry.
Prior to the emergence of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the recycled plastics industry had been making significant progress in its journey to end plastic waste. It was seeing positive results from high consumer and regulatory pressure on brands worldwide to improve their commitments to sustainability. Private companies, non-profit organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were all campaigning actively to increase consumer awareness of recycling and sustainability across the value chain. The message was finally getting through at a basic level, setting the stage for a fundamental shift in public attitudes. For example, consumers began rejecting single-use plastics such as drinking cups, straws and cutlery when they purchased take-away food; some vendors even offered incentives to customers who brought their own cups.
Last week Sophie and I took the podcast on the road to record at Clerkenwell Design Week. You can, as ever, listen to the full episode here, but the two key aspects that we discovered were the changing design of the workspace and the increasing attention being paid to sustainability.