Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Co-op becomes second supermarket to scrap bags for life as campaigners mount ‘Big Bag Ban’ in wake of government's move to delay raising charge on plastic bags. The change, which would have seen small shops in England charge for plastic bag usage for the first time, has been delayed by a month to 21 May.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Millions of consumers are putting off retail purchases and looking at the stuff in their closets and cabinets and desktops in a very different way. With that mindset, Dillinger led the design of Levi’s innovative Wellthread shirts, jackets and jeans, which launched in 2015.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

E-commerce giant announces that it has stopped packing products in single-use plastic delivery bags in its own distribution network in the UK. The company said it has successfully switched single-use plastic bags to recyclable paper delivery bags and cardboard envelopes in the UK for orders shipped from Amazon's Fulfilment Centres.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

Online retail giant publishes annual sustainability report, revealing a 45 per cent reduction in emissions per order since 2015. After making cuts in carbon emissions each year since 2015, ASOS completed the Carbon 2020 strategy in January 2020.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

The world’s biggest banks are indiscriminately funding firms responsible for devastating marine ecosystems and fuelling climate change via their plastics production, a new report from Portfolio Earth concludes. The plastics crisis is one of the most serious environmental crises facing the world.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Online retail giant will instead use 100 per cent recycled and 100 per cent recyclable packing paper in its parcels. Instead of plastic air pillows, items will be packed with 100 per cent recycled and 100 per cent recyclable packing paper, known as dunnage, which is designed to prevent movement within boxes and keep products safe.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Plastic bottles, glass, and cartons should all be recyclable through deposit return schemes across the four UK nations, Environmental Audit Committee argues. Deposit return schemes to encourage recycling should be consistent throughout the UK, and their scope should be expanded to take cartons as well as plastic bottles.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

Other measures targeted at driving up recycling and reducing waste in the government's Environment Bill include plans for a tax on businesses that produce or import plastic packaging that has less than 30 per cent recycled content, and a deposit return scheme for single-use drinks containers that would boost recycling rates.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Unveiled today, the Retailer Net Zero Collaborative Action Programme (CAP) has secured the backing of Aldi, Co-op, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and Waitrose, all of which have agreed to help develop a standard, industry-wide approach to measuring and reporting on the climate impact of food.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Campaigners are stepping up calls for a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, as evidence grows that voluntary measures are struggling to turn the tide of plastic waste. At the same time, plastic waste has more than doubled, rising from 156 million tonnes to 353 million tonnes over of the same period.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The government essentially intends to hold manufacturers and retailers more responsible for disposing of and recycling their products. UK to Reduce Plastic Waste Plastic waste is a burning issue in the UK, as its recycling industry is largely affected by China’s new ban on foreign waste.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ecocem’s revenues have tripled since 2015 and it expected revenues of around €230m in 2023. Decarbonizing packaging Since the 1950s, the world has produced over 9 billion tons (bt) of plastics. Of these plastics, around 36% are used in packaging. Flying Tiger Copenhagen is a Danish retail company founded in 1995.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. One company hoping to capitalize is Ways2H , which has a thermal process to convert municipal solid waste, medical waste, plastics and sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For example, a retailer striving to reduce its packaging waste may consider eliminating plastic bags; identifying the best alternative given the tradeoffs of paper and cloth bags may require an LCA. has set a goal to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from its full value chain 27% by 2025, and 67% by 2050, compared to a 2015 baseline.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Major retailers including H&M have begun to trial such services too. Yet despite these changes, Hubbub's polling reveals there is still considerable consumer confusion as to what constitutes ‘sustainable fashion', with the focus largely tending to sway towards plastic packaging concerns?rather

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Ec covers the life-cycle emissions for consumed food from production, packaging, transportation, and refrigeration in the truck, retail store, and consumer’s home. They also found that in-store marketing and retail stimuli can influence individuals to purchase more than was planned (impulse buying), leading to food waste. Benitez, M.,

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 15, 2020

As one of the first environmental concerns companies began to tackle proactively, interest and efforts had notable resurgence in the last few years, partly spurred by the attention on ocean plastic. Paper cups usually have unrecyclable plastic coatings. Only about 13 percent of plastic packages are recovered in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany — For 150 years, heavy industry has been the lifeblood of the German port of Wilhelmshaven, a hub for shipbuilding, plastics, coal and steel. This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Millions of consumers are putting off retail purchases and looking at the stuff in their closets and cabinets and desktops in a very different way. With that mindset, Dillinger led the design of Levi's innovative Wellthread shirts, jackets and jeans, which launched in 2015.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. It will start by making transportation fuel from wastewater sludge, then add plastics, according to the company. With four pilots under its belt, the company soon plans to launch a commercial project in Tokyo.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Pantys’ products cut down on plastic waste — one person uses up to 15,000 pads and tampons over a lifetime, most of which wind up in landfills, estimates show. Leung helped the city devise a plan to separate and collect food waste, and to create a regulatory program to eliminate single-use plastic tableware. Sripriya Navalpakam, 27.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

“Millions of consumers are putting off retail purchases and looking at the stuff in their closets and cabinets and desktops in a very different way. ” With that mindset, Dillinger led the design of Levi’s innovative Wellthread shirts, jackets and jeans, which launched in 2015.

Recycling 28

Recycling Recycling Upcycling Waste 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

“Millions of consumers are putting off retail purchases and looking at the stuff in their closets and cabinets and desktops in a very different way. ” With that mindset, Dillinger led the design of Levi’s innovative Wellthread shirts, jackets and jeans, which launched in 2015.

Recycling 28

Recycling Recycling Upcycling Waste 28

GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Her clients at PwC include corporations from the energy, transportation and retail sectors, government agencies and nonprofits with goals in biodiversity, circular economy, climate change, social inclusion and human rights. Plastics are really a material that can be used for thousands of years," he says. Heather Clancy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Amazon funded Infinium , which makes low-carbon biofuel for use in airplanes, ships and large trucks, of which the online retailer has plenty. A Sustainable Aviation Fuel Certificate system was launched to drive corporate demand for jet fuel via the sale and purchase of credits.

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Sustainability Aviation Biodiversity Carbon-negative 92

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Related: Attenborough Effect inspires people to drastically reduce single-use plastics Chasing Coral, 2017 Coral is a barometer for the health of the planet. The True Cost, 2015 The True Cost exposes another major contributor of pollution, waste and consumption — the fast fashion industry.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Pantys’ products cut down on plastic waste — one person uses up to 15,000 pads and tampons over a lifetime, most of which wind up in landfills, estimates show. Leung helped the city devise a plan to separate and collect food waste, and to create a regulatory program to eliminate single-use plastic tableware.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

A partner in the firm’s Paris office, with more than 20 years’ tenure, Auberger previously led Baker McKenzie’s consumer goods and retail practice. million pounds of plastic, or 60 million bottles. It uses the Sustainable Development Goals as a guidepost for many of its policies and has aligned its business with eight of them. .

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 9, 2025

Emma Armstrong, Sustainable Electronics Ambassador and Group Commercial Director at In2tec Ltd, said: Electric toothbrushes are less than 3 from some low-quality online retailers like Temu, so people are quick to replace them when they inevitably break. The ideal toothbrush is one which uses plastic which is recycled in a continuous process.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

The blast sent Robby Payne into a plastic tank of liquid cattle feed, knocking him unconscious. on April 17, 2013, a fire was reported at West Fertilizer, an agricultural-products retailer that had served farmers in Central Texas since 1962. This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World.

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