Single-use plastic in the pandemic: how to stay safe and sustainable
Disposable plastic can be an important tool for hygiene. But how can we look after the planet in lockdown?
Source: theconversation.com
Disposable plastic can be an important tool for hygiene. But how can we look after the planet in lockdown?
Source: theconversation.com
We take a a look at luxury travel and sustainability.
Environment changes and developments in exhibition stands have trade show organisers keen to promote their support for using products that are less harmful to the planet.
Across the theatre and film sector, companies are working towards reducing the environmental impact of their work and making it more sustainable. Theatres are hosting environmental awareness activities, performances and implementing sustainable methods of running a venue. Whereas the film industry in particular through the BFI is encouraging filmmakers to incorporate sustainable practices throughout production. Here I take a look at some of these activities and in particular how the sectors are moving beyond a ‘take, make, dispose’ economy and towards a circular economy, where all materials are treated as precious resources, with nothing thrown away.
SINGAPORE — Olam International Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Olam Treasury Pte. Ltd., have secured a $525 million revolving credit facility (RCF) linked to meeting sustainability key performance indicators (KPI).
Aspiring young sustainability, CSR and energy professionals from the likes of Unilever, Marks & Spencer and Hammerson have been unveiled as members of edie’s 30 Under 30 initiative for 2020.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. In the early 1970s, a group of fishermen organized a campaign to dump 2 million used auto tires into the Atlantic Ocean, about a mile off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., between two living coral reefs. The goal was to build an artificial reef that would promote sea life. But it had the opposite effect: The mass of tires became an underwater blight. William Nuckols, with Coastal America, the federal office that is helping coordinate a cleanup of the tires, says the original goal was a good one. “The original intention,” Nuckols says, “was to try to provide a fish habitat and add to the natural coral reefs that were there.”