Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:15:16 +0000
Our neighbor to the north will eliminate the manufacture and import of single-use and other plastics by year’s end. Why can’t the US legislate a similar, sweeping effort to fight pollution and climate change?
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:36:06 +0000
More companies are turning away from single-use plastics as public consciousness about plastic pollution increases.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 01:00:47 +0000
Coca-Cola’s head of sustainability told the World Economic Forum this week her company has no intention of reducing the number of single use plastic bottles it churns out every year. Instead, it will increase recycling efforts worldwide. Is that a plan?
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 22:30:18 +0000
China is taking a big step forward in the war on single-use plastic. It is banning most plastic bags this year and cuts in plastic utensils and carry-out containers over the next 5 years.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 01:49:53 +0000
A small Himalayan village had a creative solution to the Indian Prime Minister’s urge for people to stop using single-use plastics across the country
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:30:40 +0000
Customers can order products from a variety of companies that are shipped to them in returnable and reusable containers packed inside a reusable blue Loop container. When the products are consumed, the containers are placed inside a similar Loop container, picked up by UPS or other package delivery service, and returned to the point of origin for re-use. Customers pay a modest service fee of the use of the Loop container
Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:00:08 +0000
TORONTO – The Canadian government plans to announce it is moving to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021, a senior government official said late Sunday
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:17:16 +0000
European lawmakers voted overwhelmingly for an EU-wide ban on single-use plastic products such as the straws, cutlery and cotton buds.
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