The EU is preparing a due diligence law by June 2021 to hold companies accountable for their impact on people and the planet. There is an urgent need to address the human rights violations, child labour, environmental impact, and disinformation of the tobacco industry, write Helen Stjerna, Farida…
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Several beauty and personal care majors have joined 100+ businesses in signing a statement from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation calling for recycling costs and responsibilities to be extended to industry. The public statement said that without Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) – where supply chain members were mandated to take on certain costs and joint responsibility – packaging collection and recycling was “unlikely to be meaningfully scaled” in the future. Among the 100+ signatories, including a raft of food and beverage players like Coca-Cola and Nestlé, non-profit WWF and the European Investment Bank, several leading beauty players had aligned their support, including Beiersdorf, Henkel, L’Oréal, Schwarz Group and Unilever, among others. “For a circular economy, packaging that can’t be eliminated or reused must be collected, sorted and recycled or composted after use. But currently, the economics do not stack up: collection, sorting and recycling or processing packaging costs more than the revenues made from selling the recycled materials. We need dedicated, ongoing and sufficient funding to make the economics of recycling work,” the Ellen MacArthur Foundation said.
Lightweight and inexpensive, plastic is one of the world’s most used materials, but its extreme durability means that effective end-of-life management is critical. High quality recycling is therefore an indispensable solution for processing plastic waste.
A new study has been announced that will look the fate and destination of electricals and electronics to support strategies on WEEE collection and reporting.The study will be conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Lancaster, compliance … Continue reading →…
The more we become aware about the harmfulness we are daily afflicting to our planet (and our future), the more we realize the importance of sustainable and recycled clothing, especially denim.
The people of Punjab need to be complimented for winning a clear majority to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the recent Assembly elections. Prime Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has a golden opportunity to get Punjab back on track of achieving higher sustainable growth, lower corruption and liberation from the drug mafia. Only then can Punjab regain its happiness and prosperity. Mann has pledged to root out corruption in government offices, but so far has not announced a plan for agriculture, a leading industry, initiating Punjab’s Green Revolution. But the state was late. We try to reveal the main problems in Punjab agriculture, the factors that brought it to its current state and what potential solutions could be to ensure sustainable prosperity. The biggest problem facing Punjab agriculture is the rapidly depleting and deteriorating quality of groundwater resources.
Levels of electrical and electronic waste are expected to more than double by 2050, according to the UN.