/ Bishopston Comprehensive headteacher Jeff Bird talks to Claire Pearson about his school’s single-use plastic pledge.

/ Bishopston Comprehensive headteacher Jeff Bird talks to Claire Pearson about his school’s single-use plastic pledge.

Bishopston Comprehensive School in Swansea is getting rid of single-use plastic drinks bottles. Instead pupils will be offered jugs of tap water with their school meals.

AAI imposes ban on single-use plastic items at 129 airports across country | Business Standard News

AAI imposes ban on single-use plastic items at 129 airports across country | Business Standard News

Read more about AAI imposes ban on single-use plastic items at 129 airports across country on Business Standard.AAI said that on the basis of a third-party assessment carried out by Quality Council of India (QCI), 16 of its airports have been declared as ‘Single-Use Plastic Free’…

Environment America and U.S. PIRG Praise Kroger’s Plan to Phase Out Single-Use Plastic Bags by 2025

Environment America and U.S. PIRG Praise Kroger’s Plan to Phase Out Single-Use Plastic Bags by 2025

Today, Kroger Co. announced its plan to phase out single-use plastic bags and transition to reusable bags across its 15 brands of grocery stores by 2025, starting with Seattle-based QFC in 2019. Kroger is America’s largest grocery-only chain and the first major chain to make that type of pledge.

6th Workshop & Peer Review in Romania

6th Workshop & Peer Review in Romania

The sixth Interregional policy learning workshop & peer review of the STOB regions project took place on 26th and 27th of September 2018, in Bucharest, Romania and organized by project partner Ilfov County Council. The first day was dedicated to introducing the participants to the thematic workshop topic: Matchmaking.  The workshop began with an introduction and welcome speech by Ionel Scriosteanu, Public Manager of Ilfov County Council. The first thematic lecture of the day, delivered by Dan Crivat of TradeX, a national business transfer platform, explored the intricacies of the transfer environment in Romania as well as an overview of the TradeX platform. The second thematic lecture presented by Gabriel-Alexandru Tolomey, Senior Business Development Advisor at Soft Tehnica, offered his viewpoint and experiences of national mergers and acquisitions.

Making sense of the EU’s Circular Economy Package from the metal packaging value chain

Making sense of the EU’s Circular Economy Package from the metal packaging value chain

New EU waste legislation adopted last year has redefined what can be considered “recycled” and resets targets for each packaging material. Gordon Shade goes through the expected changes and remaining challenges.

Source: www.euractiv.com