Landfills — May 22, 2019Siblings on a Mission to Grow Gardens, Not Landfills Earn $50,000 from General MillsGeneral Mills proudly awarded Ugo Angeletti, founder of back2earth, and his sister Emma $50,000 as the winners of its annual Feeding Better Futures Scholars Program. The program recognizes young people in North America who are doing great things to improve global food issues, such as fighting hunger, reducing food waste and advancing sustainable agriculture in their communities. The siblings learned they […] Landfills — May 22, 2019
Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019Tiny East Timor to Become World’s First Plastic-Neutral NationEast Timor is set to become the world’s first country to recycle all its plastic waste after it teamed up with Australian researchers to build a revolutionary recycling plant. The $40-million plant will ensure that no plastic, once used in the Southeast Asian nation, would become waste, but would instead be turned into new products. […] Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019
Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019SC Johnson Says It Is Offering More Concentrate Products To Combat Plastic WasteFamily-owned household products company SC Johnson is offering a simple solution by asking consumers to swap the same products they already use for concentrates that reduce plastic waste. Concentrate products—cleaning products, specifically, in SC Johnson’s case—can be combined with tap water in reusable bottles, minimizing the packaging and transport of containers that are mostly filled with water. “Every single […] Newsletter Headline — May 19, 2019
Collection/Transfer — May 19, 2019Online Shipping Boom Creates Massive ‘Cardboard Footprint’ from BoxesDeliveries are skyrocketing. The U.S. Department of Commerce says e-commerce sales for 2018 were more than $513 billion, an increase of more than 14 percent in a single year. Amazon revealed that in 2017 it shipped more than 5 billion items worldwide, to Prime customers alone. The I-Team and Chicago Sun-Times wanted to know how all those […] Collection/Transfer — May 19, 2019
Newsletter Headline — May 12, 2019Chumash Casino Resort Awarded True© Silver by Green Business Certification Inc. for Zero Waste EffortsThe Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians announces that the Chumash Casino Resort has become the first casino in the world to earn TRUE©(Total Resource Use and Efficiency) Zero Waste certification from Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), the premier organization independently recognizing excellence in green business industry performance and practice globally. Through innovative recycling programs […] Newsletter Headline — May 12, 2019
Landfills — May 9, 2019Qantas Makes History with First Flight to Produce Zero Landfill WasteAustralian airline Qantas has launched the first commercial flight to produce no landfill waste, marking a “significant day” for aviation. The flight marks the start of Qantas’ plans to eliminate 75 per cent of waste by 2021 and cut 100 million single-use plastics by the end of 2020. Around 1,000 single-use plastic items were substituted with […] Landfills — May 9, 2019
Collection/Transfer — May 8, 2019Texas Becomes 6th State to Pass Legislation to Help Recover More PlasticsThe American Chemistry Council (ACC) applauds the Texas Legislature for passing HB 1953. When signed, Texas will become the sixth state—and the third state this year—to pass legislation to promote advanced plastics recycling and recovery technologies to convert more post-use plastics into valuable raw materials. “Texas and a growing number of states are leading the […] Collection/Transfer — May 8, 2019
Newsletter Headline — May 8, 2019Palo Alto, CA Encourages Local Action to Move More Aggressively Toward Zero WastePalo Alto’s Zero Waste Plan, which was initially implemented in 2007 and updated in 2018, is a systematic solution to achieve the zero waste goal. The plan seeks to improve to waste management, resource management and enforcement of consumer and producer responsibility. It identifies 48 short-term, medium-term and long-term zero waste initiatives that use a […] Newsletter Headline — May 8, 2019
Newsletter Headline — May 6, 2019LyondellBasell Joins Alliance to End Plastic WasteLyondellBasell, one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, has joined with Proctor & Gamble and Veolia in leading the newly announced global Alliance to End Plastic Waste. The AEPW is the first-ever international coalition of chemical and plastics manufacturers, converters, consumer goods companies, retailers and waste management companies dedicated to […] Newsletter Headline — May 6, 2019
Newsletter Headline — May 5, 2019Coffee Waste ‘Could Replace Palm Oil’Two Scottish entrepreneurs are aiming to go global with their hope to replace palm oil using coffee waste. Scott Kennedy and Fergus Moore said they came up with a unique way to extract oil from used coffee grounds which had a wide range of uses. Palm oil is found in many household products, but environmentalists […] Newsletter Headline — May 5, 2019
Newsletter Headline — May 5, 2019What is the World’s #1 Plastic Pollutant?While banning or reducing the use of plastic bags and straws has become a headline cause for brands, governments and environmental activists in recent years, cigarette butts are actually the most littered waste stream on the planet Researchers, scientists and policymakers from around the world are coming up with innovative actions to tackle the problem […] Newsletter Headline — May 5, 2019
Newsletter Headline — May 3, 2019Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts Race Against Bans, Taxes on Disposable CupsOverwhelmed by trash, jurisdictions around the world are banning single-use plastic takeaway containers and cups. Europe says plastic beverage cups have to go by 2021. India wants them out by 2022. Taiwan set a deadline of 2030. Surcharges like Berkeley’s are likely to get more common in an attempt to quickly change consumer behavior before […] Newsletter Headline — May 3, 2019
