Jeff Bezos announces $10 billion investment to fight climate change; Greenpeace publishes study showing that common plastic items may not be labeled properly; the EU considers using revenues from plastic tax to make up for Brexit financial loss; France, South Korea, and Ireland take measures to reduce waste; Companies are paying more attention to how their packaging makes customers feel; and more.
The Super Bowl successfully diverts all its waste away from landfills; Nike designs most sustainable line yet for the 2020 Olympics; New Zealand removes all plastic packaging from supermarket fruits and vegetables; Scientists create strong, bio-based plastic alternatives from silk; U.S. hits record low for recycled fiber exports; and more.
Tokyo 2020 aims to be the greenest-ever Olympic Games; The Australian Open features tennis nets made from recycled plastic; Adidas makes a turf field entirely from recycled plastic bottles; Chipotle converts plastic gloves to trash liners; People in China get creative with protection from the Coronavirus, including using plastic bottles; and more.
Investors pour billions of dollars into alternative plastics; Taco Bell announces goal to make all packaging recyclable, compostable, or reusable; Technologies develop for processing non-sorted recyclables, and for plastics-to-hydrogen facilities; Kenya has world’s strictest plastic bag ban; BBC to launch series on climate change; and more.
