The city of Palo Alto has joined San Francisco in passing a sweeping ban on plastics that will eventually eliminate nearly all non-recyclable plastic from the restaurant and service industry.
Source: sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Sustainability and resilience are critical considerations when planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining the world’s infrastructure….
Viridor and the BBC’s the One Show combined their resources to send a powerful message on the need to act now to stem the tide of beach and ocean plastics and to demonstrate how the circular economy can work when the right stuff is put in the right bin.
A carbon-neutral show and a venue made entirely from upcycled pianos in Edinburgh have been named winners of the Sustainable Fringe Awards…
This tiny Himalayan village has shunned single-use plastics – the impact is too serious for them.
Just two months after ING introduced the world’s first sustainability improvement derivative , we launched another product aimed at encouraging companies to get measured on environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.
Together with countries in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region, UNEP is developing a project entitled “Reduce marine plastics and plastic pollution in Latin American and Caribbean cities through a circular economy approach” co-financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This project aims at facilitating governments and businesses at the city level in the region to address the plastic pollution through accelerating their transition to a circular economy for plastics. The project is planned to be implemented in 6 cities in Colombia (Cartagena, one more to be decided), Jamaica (Kingston, Montego Bay), Panama (Panama City, Colon). UNEP is issuing the following two types of posts to support the development of the project: Data collection consultancy: collection of data related with marine plastics and plastic pollution from the 3 target countries, in particular the 6 target cities; Policy consultancy: policy baseline identification and stakeholder engagement at national and local level related with circular economy, marine plastics, and plastic pollution from the 3 target countries, in particular the 6 target cities.