Consumer goods giant Unilever has committed to halving the new plastic for its goods by 2025 — a goal that would cut its use to 386,000 tons of new plastic each year from around 772,000 tons in 2018.
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From grocery bags to plastic containers to packing peanuts made of foam, packaging from plastic is said to be changing the world, and not for the better.
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Your first impression of Diane Wilson and her brigade of volunteer environmental activists might be that they're aging hippies, still fighting the establishment.
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Some 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a township adjacent to a state forest, oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell is building a sprawling new plant to support what it sees as the future of its business.
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Last June, As You Sow founded the Plastic Solutions Investor Alliance, an international coalition of investors engaging publicly traded consumer goods companies on plastic waste and pollution.
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New York (CNN Business)Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, two major sellers of plastic bottles, have made sweeping sustainability commitments. Now they are stepping away from a plastics lobbying group.
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THE STUDENTS AT Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid off.
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Newton Abbot aims to be a plastic-free community.
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Greensboro, North Carolina-based Unifi Inc. has launched a new sustainable product that it says enables customers and consumers to play a role in solving the problem of ocean plastic.
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Microscopic plastic particles are in our oceans, the fish we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink.
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This could have been a legacy initiative, a moment for the prime minister to stake a leadership position in one of the most urgent issues of our time.
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Investors have been stepping up efforts to prod companies to advance their commitments to environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities.
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Several of the largest producers of the fossil fuel feedstocks used to make plastics are being pressured by investors to explain what the companies are doing to reduce plastic waste in the world's oceans and waterways.
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Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is a controversial method used to extract natural gas and oil from shale rock formations.
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The largest U.S. companies are beginning to pay heed to the demands of investors focused on environmental and social issues, a shift for shareholders long relegated to the sidelines.
A year ago, I thought a nurdle was a cricket term for a score by deflecting the ball rather than striking it.
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Starbucks promised that its latest design innovation, a “clear, recyclable” plastic drink cap that funnels liquid through a slightly raised area, would soon replace more than a billion plastic straws each year.
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If you’re like many of those I’ve introduced the word “nurdle” to in the last week or so, you giggled the first time you heard it.
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Environmental advocacy group As You Sow (Oakland, CA) announced that it has withdrawn its shareholder proposals with Chevron and Phillips 66 since Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. (The Woodlands, TX), which is jointly owned by the two companies, has agreed to start reporting spills of pre-production plastic pellets.
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