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P&G sends recycling message to consumers with ocean plastics bottles

Angeli Mehta, (Oct 23, 2017)

Procter & Gamble is the latest brand to use ocean plastics in its packaging in a bid to boost home recycling rates

Brands wake up to tragedy of the oceans

Angeli Mehta, (Oct 20, 2017)

Shocking images of marine life choking on plastic waste are finally moving companies to innovate on more sustainable packaging solutions. But it will take more than new technologies to kick a decades-old global addiction to cheap single-use plastic

The impact intrapraneurs: How Danone is partnering to boost recycling and create jobs

Anonymous, (Oct 12, 2017)

In this guest blog, Karen Deignan of Net-Works interviews Frédérique Rathle to find out how Danone Water France worked with start-up Lemon Tri to create Lemonaide, which employs previously long-term unemployed to increase low recovery rates of PET bottles

Dell’s innovation-lead approach to help meet the UN’s Global Goals

Liam Dowd, (Sep 14, 2017)

As part of our management spotlight series our managing director Liam Dowd talks with Louise Koch, corporate sustainability lead, EMEA at Dell, on packaging, partnerships and future opportunities

The impact intrapraneurs: How Interface and ZSL collaborated to create Net-Works

Terry Slavin, (Sep 8, 2017)

In this guest blog, Karen Deignan interviews Miriam Turner, formerly of Interface, and Dr Nick Hill of the Zoological Society of London, to find out how they worked together to create Net-Works in 2012

How France is stealing a march on sustainability

Terry Slavin, (Aug 17, 2017)

This month's magazine reports on the state of sustainable business in France, looking at how the country is taking leadership on issues from climate to human rights, and how the new Macron government looks set to lift that ambition even further

Coca-Cola GB to double recycled plastics use in new sustainable packaging strategy

Rebecca Ley, (Jul 13, 2017)

The drinks company is to boost recycled content of its bottles to 50% in Great Britain and trial a deposit-return scheme

Weekly Watch: 28 April 2017

EC Newsdesk, (Apr 28, 2017)

London's circular economy, Ford's hybrid vans, AkzoNobel helps megacities, DanoneWave becomes public benefit corporation, Triodos launches sustainable current account, Olam reduces carbon

Smurfit Kappa's zero-waste alchemist

Terry Slavin, (Apr 27, 2017)

As manager of one of Europe’s largest recycled paper mills, Jo Cox is turning his nearly zero waste Netherlands facility into the linchpin of a bio-based industrial economy

Toyota and Jaguar show zero-waste metal

Maxine Perella, (Apr 27, 2017)

Leading carmakers are mining scrap vehicles for valuable raw materials to reuse in new cars

Timberland aims to scale plastic waste fabric

Maxine Perella, (Apr 27, 2017)

The US outerwear giant wants to use Timberland X Thread, made from Haiti rubbish, in all products that use recycled PET

It takes a city to close the waste loop

Maxine Perella, (Apr 27, 2017)

Municipalities from Amsterdam to Peterborough are mapping out how firms can work together to share resources

Weekly Watch: 13 April 2017

Rebecca Ley, (Apr 12, 2017)

Ford electrifies China, Smurfit Kappa's cardboard tent, O2 reduces emissions, AccorHotels goes low-carbon, Riversimple gets funding, and H&M boosts circular innovation

NGO Voices: Consumers want to go green. Just don’t mention the S word

Trewin Restorick, (Apr 3, 2017)

Trewin Restorick of sustainability communications charity Hubbub says campaigns such as the #SquareMileChallenge to recycle coffee cups, launched this week, succeed if they are positive and playful

Weekly Watch: 6 April 2017

Rebecca Ley, (Mar 15, 2017)

#SquareMileChallenge on coffee cup waste, investors press Amazon on ESG, EU utilities locking in carbon, air pollution risks, sustainable plantations, China storage problems, saving crayfish, Florida B Corp

Circling back to India's ‘make do and mend’ culture to cut emissions

Martin Wright, (Feb 27, 2017)

Shifting to a circular economy could cut the country's greenhouse gases by 44%, says The Ellen Macarthur Foundation

Weekly Watch: 9 February 2017

EC Newsdesk, (Feb 8, 2017)

NGOs slam EU plastics strategy, Teesside CCS, SC Johnson protects Amazonia, phones for the homeless, DONG to end coal, Primark cotton farmers increase profits, the Crowd goes B Corp, and VisionFund boosts impact

How RE100 helped HP put a sustainability stake in the ground

April Streeter, (Jan 24, 2017)

Making the commitment to 100% renewables in March 2016 gave employees in the new entity a sense of purpose

Weekly Watch: 19 January 2017

EC Newsdesk, (Jan 18, 2017)

P&G's plastics solution, Europe's circular economy, Unilever recycling target, HSBC slammed, Ikea zero waste pledge, UK urged on SDGs, sustainable Siemens, blood diamonds, Waitrose food waste push, and Divine Chocolate

If we want to deliver the SDGs we have to think exponential

EC Newsdesk, (Jan 16, 2017)

John Elkington argues that the sustainability industry has to reinvent itself in this edited excerpt from a report for the Business and Sustainable Development Commission

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