Shedding the straw addiction is gaining momentum throughout the United States and United Kingdom as restaurants and coffee houses provide alternatives. Backlot Coffee eliminated plastic straws from its shops in Chicago and Evanston and offering customers paper or commercially-compostable straws.
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The European Parliament and the Council gave their official green light to the Single-use Plastics Directive on Tuesday morning (21 May).Larissa Copello de Souza explains how the implementation pe……
Today, UN Environment published its sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) in time for the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, calling on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as other Internationally Agreed Environment Goals, such as the Paris Agreement. GEO-6 outlines the current state of the environment, illustrates possible future environmental trends and analyses the effectiveness of policies.
The SSA has responded to Defra’s Environmental Land Management policy discussion, which closed for submissions on 31 July. We argued for greater recognition and protections for soil health in new, post-Brexit agriculture policy.
Scouting provides young people with opportunities to participate in programmes, events, activities and projects that contribute to their growth as active citizens. Through these initiatives, young people become agents of positive change who inspire others to take action.
In Slovakia, the toothbrush giant Curaprox is encouraging the collection and recycling of its used products. Taking dental hygiene into the circular economy!
Brooklyn-based design studio crème is behind the design which repurposes gourds, a large fruit with a hard skin a fruit in the pumpkin family, to create the ‘HyO-cup’ to cut down on plastic waste.