Packaging designer Elena Amato has created bacterial cellulose sheets using a mixture of natural and sustainable materials that are said to provide a good alternative to plastic packaging for personal care products.
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Industrialist Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has called for a universal ban on single-use plastic to rid the communities of the “malaise”.
A ban on single-use plastics including cutlery and straws will be pushed back in SA to allow restaurants and cafes to reopen “sooner rather than later” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Small businesses in both Houston’s Second Ward and Third Ward will be the focus of a community-engaged research project underwritten by a grant just awarded to Rice University. The success of businesses in those two historic Houston neighborhoods during the last two decades will be studied under a $300,000 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Community-Engaged Research grant awarded to the McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. After World War II, Third Ward blossomed into a predominantly African American community while Second Ward developed into a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. Over the last two decades, both wards have undergone economic revitalization and demographic transformation.
Eateries like Mcdonald’s and Costa Coffee are actively involved in this initiative……
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ADVA (FSE: ADV) today announced that its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)….