COVID-19 has put small businesses under an enormous amount of pressure, so a campaign designed to highlight struggling businesses to get YOUR attention is getting heaps of support. Visa’s #WhereYouShopMatters wants people to THINK about shopping locally.
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Coca-Cola has said it will not ditch single-use plastic bottles as its head of sustainability insisted consumers still prefer to use them. Bea Perez told the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos that customers like the bottles because they reseal and are lightweight. Coca-Cola, one of the world’s…
The riverside town of Manningtree in Essex may be small, but when it comes to the environment, it’s making big waves. The tiny place on the River Stour has been given special environmental status after its businesses agreed to stop using unnecessary single-use plastics. Mother-of-two Bekki Bibko was the driving force behind that change. Three years ago she formed a community group with other residents who were growing increasingly concerned about the climate crisis. “I believe we are stewards of this planet and we have a responsibility to leave something behind that is not damaged,” she says.
Every year it’s estimated we toss away more than a billion plastic bottles here in New Zealand. This plastic ends up clogging our landfills, getting shipped offshore and incinerated in places like Malaysia, where it harms human health, or it winds up on our coast, causing harm to wildlife like the toroa (albatross) and breaking down into tiny toxic pieces which end up in our food. We all know the time has come for visionary action on plastic – let’s ban throwaway plastic bottles* and mandate for reusable alternatives. We’re calling on New Zealand’s government to ban single-use plastic bottles. Will you join us?
The ban applies to all retailers, not just supermarkets, including newsagents, takeaways, pharmacies and discount variety stores.
Koehler Paper, a Koehler Group company, recently underwent its second assessment by EcoVadis, a platform and provider of sustainability ratings. The c…
California remains the global leader in sustainable winegrowing practices, with one of the most widely adopted sustainable winegrowing programs in the world.