July 14, 2019
Stories tagged "recycle"
June 11, 2019
Trudeau Announces Canada Will Ban Single-Use Plastics By 2021
The government of Canada announced this week that it will ban many single-use plastic items by 2021 and also plans to make companies that manufacture or sell plastic products take responsibility for recycling their plastic waste. According to CBC News, the government...March 15, 2019
Coca Cola’s Plastic – It’s The Real Thing
The Coca-Cola Company, in an effort to be more transparent and decrease its environmental footprint, reported that it produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, and also announced that it will donate $5.4 million to a number of environmental...March 6, 2019
One Mardi Gras Thing: Biodegradable Beads
What’s Mardi Gras without the beads? They are the symbol of the event — a “must have” if you are there for the celebration. Last year, Huffington Post reports that almost 1,200 tons of trash were collected after the Mardi Gras parade —...January 25, 2019
Sustainability Innovation: Deliver Products the Old Fashioned Way In Re-usable Containers
Some of the world’s biggest consumer product brands — Pepsi, Nestlé, Unilever, and Proctor & Gamble — announced yesterday at the World Economic Forum that they have teamed with N.J. based company, TerraCycle, to deliver sustainability the old...January 11, 2019
Cities Saying Bye-Bye to Styrofoam
On Tuesday, the City of San Diego became the latest U.S. city to ban the use of styrofoam within city limits. The ban covers the use and distribution some very common products like egg cartons, food containers, coolers, ice chests, pool or beach toys, mooring buoys...January 9, 2019
Tackling food waste, one fish chip at a time
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food (222 million tons) as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tons). The amount of food lost or wasted every year...March 30, 2018