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'The world is moving on': Coca-Cola's Therese Noorlander on plastic, packaging, and youth activism

Business Green

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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Flat-lining: Policy review highlights England's mixed progress on waste reduction

Business Green

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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UK Regulator Approves £40B of Grid Investment, But Is It Enough?

GreenTechMedia

On Tuesday, Ofgem revealed a total investment package of at least £40 billion ($53.3 The new investment package is part of Ofgem's second Revenue = Incentives + Innovation + Outputs framework (RIIO-2), set to be implemented in April 2021, which will guide transmission network investments from 2021-2026.

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Why is England's progress on waste reduction flat-lining?

Business Green

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market. and Canadian cities.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

With Michael Braungart, 2013. But we were not required to by law. And I am seeing really good regulation in China over the quality of packaging based on our biological and technical nutrient conversations with them. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. Chew, chew, chew.

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Cook Islands UN Negotiator Paid $700k by Shipping Industry Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

Tax returns from 2013 onwards list him as receiving £0 compensation personally, although the filings say expenses of a similar value were paid to “current officers, directors, trustees, and key employees”, which would include Finley. ‘Full Confidence’ of Cook Islands.