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Plastics wrap: Asda, Tesco, and Pret accelerate shift away from single-use plastics
Asda's George clothing label to only use polyester from recycled materials by 2025, as Tesco launches plastic-free veg trial and Pret rolls our water refill points
Report: Food banks serve to slash global carbon emissions
Analysis suggests food banks are helping to tackle hunger and avoid emissions equivalent to the annual carbon output of 2.2 million cars
Ford revs up plans for expanded $850m Michigan EV plant
Auto giant says it has taken a 'fresh look' at growing EV demand and is to develop a second dedicated manufacturing hub
Starbucks to trial greener takeaway cups in UK, US, and Canada
But Greenpeace says new recyclable and compostable cups still rely on 'throwaway model'
SDG5: Convincing London's women to join the cleantech sector
Karen Lawrence, commissioner on the London Sustainable Development Commission, reveals what's happening behind the scenes in the capital's tech scene to boost gender diversity
UK and China cut ribbon on joint offshore wind research centre
New £2m joint venture in Yantai City aims to help accelerate expansion of global offshore wind industry
HP vows to make printing operations fully 'forest positive'
IT and printing giant confirms it has reached its goal for ensuring all its paper is 'zero deforestation' two years ahead of schedule
Transitioning, fast and slow
Businesses know they have to transition towards a net zero emission future, the big question is how fast they should make the journey
The scrapping of Energy Star labels in the EU leaves a vacuum
EU Commission's decision to scrap Energy Star labels for office equipment without consultation remains controversial with manufacturers, says TechUK's Susanne Baker
'Alexa, cut the carbon intensity of my energy use'
Octopus Energy integrates with Amazon Alexa to provide voice activation of smart home services
Global Recycling Day: Big brands announce flurry of new recycling initiatives
Nestle, Veolia, Walkers, PepsiCo, and Terracycle to the fore with announcements to mark Global Recycling Day
BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2019: Deadline extended by one week
In response to popular demand, all entrants have one additional week to submit their entry to the UK's most prestigious green business awards
Food chain Leon teams up with Veolia for deposit return scheme recycling pilot
Restaurant chain serves up reverse recycling machine to boost plastic bottle and aluminium cans with help from Veolia
Goldwind backs Oxford PV as part of £31m funding round
Chinese renewable energy giant invests in pioneering UK-based perovskite solar specialist
Playing for keeps: Is designing emotional durability the key to a circular economy?
We have too much stuff, and too much consumer detachment. But getting people to see material products as long-term is hard
North West prepares pitch to become UK Low Carbon Industrial Cluster
New collaboration hoping to mobilise £500m of investment in low carbon heavy industry over the coming decades
BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2019: Last chance to enter
There is just a day left to be in the running for the ninth annual BusinessGreen Leaders Awards
PureCycle teams up with Nestlé to accelerate 'revolutionary' plastic recycling method
US recycling firm secures partnerships with Nestlé and Milliken & Company as it builds polypropylene recycling plant in Ohio
Artificial Intelligence is coming for our energy system
If machine learning is going to be at the heart of the energy system, what goals should it pursue - and who should decide those? Faraday Grid's Matthew Williams investigates
Ovo plugs into crypto craze with stake in blockchain firm Electron
Energy supplier takes minority stake in Electron to build vision of 'flexible and zero-carbon energy system'
UN: Countries set to overshoot goals on curbing chemicals pollution
Hazardous chemicals are now 'ubiquitous' in air, water, soil, food and humans, UN declares
Government urged to go 'all-in' and ensure nearly 100 per cent of aluminium is recycled
New Green Alliance report argues embracing some of the more ambitious measures included in the government's proposed Resource and Waste Strategy could save the UK £50m a year
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