ocean plastics

Fashion 'slow to act on ocean plastic pollution from microfibres'
Mark Hillsdon, (Aug 30, 2020)

With textiles the biggest source of the 1.4 quadrillion chemically laced microfibres that are floating in our seas and entering the food chain, Mark Hillsdon looks at nascent efforts by the likes of H&M and other Fashion Pact members to clean up its act
CSR Cheat Sheet: Reality check for the planet amid tide of bad news
Oliver Balch, (Nov 9, 2018)

Chances of limiting global warming to below 2C ‘almost zero’; companies make large-scale pledges on plastic waste; resolving the disconnect between corporate and consumer views of transparency
‘We need to keep plastics in our economy – but out of the oceans’
Angeli Mehta, (Aug 30, 2018)

Angeli Mehta interviews Lonely Whale’s Dune Ives about how the NGO is working with Dell and other corporate partners in the NextWave initiative to help companies incorporate plastic waste in supply chains
CSR Cheat Sheet: Big firms in deep water as LGIM warns of uninsurable world
Oliver Balch, (Jun 24, 2018)

Climate inaction CEOs in Legal and General's sights; no let-up in plastics debate; Europe nudges non-carbon energy targets
Why UNEP sees the private sector as critical to its mission to clean up the oceans
Terry Slavin, (May 9, 2018)

UNEP's Jorge Laguna-Celis tells Terry Slavin why the UN agency now regards companies as crucial partners in efforts such as ending ocean plastics and fighting biodiversity loss
Analysis: UK retailers’ plastics pact ‘must be backed up by real change’
Angeli Mehta, (May 4, 2018)

Angeli Mehta peels the lid off the commitment by Britain’s biggest supermarkets and brands to create a circular economy for plastics by 2025 and finds that huge barriers will need to be overcome
CSR Cheat Sheet: 'No company will meet its 2020 zero-deforestation goals'
Oliver Balch, (Dec 19, 2017)

Nestlé, Mars, Marks & Spencer, Danone and Kellogg top scorers in Forest 500 report; ocean plastics backlash grows; EU probes IKEA tax affairs
Top stories of 2017: #6 Circular economy spreads as brands take back plastics
Maxine Perella, (Dec 12, 2017)

Maxine Perella reports on how brands like Timberland, HP, Dell and P&G led the way by incorporating waste in new products and packaging
Who's bending the curve on reusing plastic
Angeli Mehta, (Oct 20, 2017)

With increasing attention drawn to their packaging washing up on pristine beaches, brands such as Unilever, Nestle and Procter & Gamble are setting stretch targets to adopt more circular approaches. We look at innovation in use of recycled plastics and the barriers to taking them to scale
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 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
Weekly Watch: 2 March 2017
EC Newsdesk, (Mar 1, 2017)

Coral rescue mission, Dell uses ocean plastics, Indian solar, Singapore carbon tax, sustainable Mango, Co-op Fairtrade cocoa, charities squeezed, California to go fossil-fuel free, Walgreens Boots CSR

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