Sustainability
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Environment Denmark“Please Change Your Plastic Packaging” Children Pled to Giant Toy Maker (and They Did!)
Following letters from children concerned about the use of single-use plastic bags to wrap the bricks, the toy company LEGO has decided to change their packaging to recyclable paper bags made with Forest Stewardship Council-certified paper.
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Technology SwedenClothes Made From (Fake) Spider Silk, Corn, or Methane? Yep, Thanks to Biotechnology!
Re:newcell, a Swedish startup based in Kristinehamn, Sweden, has decided to make clothes from Circulose, a biodegradable pulp of their own creation. They are part of a new breed of biotech brands that wish to make fashion more sustainable.
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Environment SeychellesSeychelles Made a Deal for Nature: You Pay our Debts, We’ll Protect the Ocean
The Seychelles signed a unique deal, a “debt for nature” swap: the Nature Conservancy buys a large part of the country’s national debt in exchange for the creation of 13 new marine protected areas (MPAs).
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Environment United KingdomNurture Nature is the New Trend in Businesses (and many need nature to make money, too!)
Businesses show an interest in limiting the harm their operations do to the planet. More than 1,600 companies around the world have already taken steps to protect nature and reduce their threats to forests, soil, plants, animals and humans.
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Environment UAEEach Person in Abu Dhabi Uses 1,184 Plastics Bags a Year – by 2021 It Will Be 0
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, is planning to ban disposable plastic bags by 2021, according to officials, to improve its environmental policies and progressively rid of all single-use plastics in a first-of-its-kind move for the nation.