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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Big investment firms are again using their vast stock holdings to pressure corporate executives over everything from boardroom diversity and political activity to food waste and plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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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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OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — There are growing protests over the amount of plastic ending up in the world’s oceans, but one Oakland nonprofit is taking a different approach that is having a remarkable effect on getting big plastic producers to care about the problem.
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(Reuters) - Chevron Phillips Chemical Co said on Tuesday it would start reporting plastic pellet spills from its chemical plants in 2019.
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Less than two weeks after Exxon Mobil became the first major oil company to agree to report plastic pellet pollution to investors, another major petrochemical company has followed suit under pressure from activist shareholders.
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Petrochemical companies are facing pressure to disclose incidents where they have spilled plastic into the ocean, which leads to what is said to be a major source of pollution.
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