One World – One Environment – One Network
Hazardous chemicals are finding their way into food-contact items, toys and jewellery because manufacturers are using recycled electrics as a source of black plastic, a new study has reported. Bromine, antimony and lead have...
The Coca-Cola Company in Western Europe and Coca-Cola European Partners plc have launched a new Sustainability Action Plan called “This is Forward”, which sets ambitious new commitments on drinks, packaging and society. The Sustainability Action...
A new WHO report highlights how tobacco threatens the development of nations worldwide by causing widespread poverty and large-scale environmental degradation. The health costs of tobacco are already well known. According to the WHO,...
The UN’s environment agency has launched an unprecedented global campaign urging everyone to stop using microplastics and disposable plastics before they cause irreversible damage to the world’s seas and oceans. “Plastic pollution is surfing...
France has passed a new law that will ban all plastic cups, plates and cutlery. Effective 2020, all disposable dishware will have to be compostable and made of biologically sourced materials. France made headlines...
The U.S. capital is set to become a Styrofoam-free city after a ban on the wasteful take-out food and beverage containers went into effect on 1 January. From now on, all restaurants will have...
The planned ban against plastic bags in California has been postponed and will instead put to a referendum in November 2016. Activists and politicians accuse plastic bag makers of buying their way onto the...
A new economic study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris Program found that California residents lose millions of dollars each year avoiding littered, local beaches in favour of choosing cleaner...
A major new survey of the European seafloor has bottles, plastic bags, fishing nets and other types of human litter in even in the deepest ocean depths up to 2,000 kilometres from land. Marine...
Used plastic shopping bags, an abundant source of litter on land and at sea, can be converted into diesel, natural gas and other useful petroleum products, report University of Illinois researchers. The conversion produces...
