Circular Economy
'Huge potential': EU targets throwaway culture with sweeping circular economy plan
Environmental groups and green businesses broadly welcome strategy, which aims to 'make sustainable products the norm'
Stores are essential for the Loop reusable packaging program
The Loop circular packaging model is fast taking shape, and the company behind it insists conventional retailers still have a huge role to play in its success
From stations and supermarkets to fast fashion and takeaway boxes, the plastics crackdown continues
The initial headline-grabbing pledges to phase out single use plastic may have become old news, but the new normal is seeing hundreds of companies quietly advance their plastic reduction strategies
London and Glasgow form partnership to pursue circular economy principles
The cities will share knowledge and best practice from case studies developed in the Circular London and Circular Glasgow projects which began in 2017
EU eco-design rules are major step forward - the UK must stick with them
New EU rules boosting repairability and energy efficiency of TVs, fridges and lighting products will cut consumer costs and emissions, argues Andrew Warren
Survey: Consumers keen to drop brands that damage the environment
Global survey commissioned by financial giant ING finds appetite for enhanced environmental performance among consumers, but warns green progress is hampered by confusion about sustainability options
Global Briefing: France confirms law preventing companies destroying unsold goods
New rules are expected to have a major impact on luxury fashion and cosmetic companies. Plus, all the other green business news from around the world
Why batteries can and should have 'passports' soon
Benedikt Sobotka of the Global Battery Alliance makes the case for battery passports to boost quality and improve circularity in the energy storage industry
SC Johnson hits circular plastics economy home run
SC Johnson is partnering with the Milwaukee Brewers for its latest plastic-busting initative
Can you nudge people away from single use plastic?
Hubbub's Trewin Restorick asks the burning question on plastic waste
C&A owners launch Laudes Foundation in bid 'to reshape global markets'
The Foundation aims to build on C&A's work pioneering circular economy principles across the fashion industry
Hubbub announces £300,000 investment in London coffee cup recycling facilities
The London facilities are part of a total of 12 recycling projects across the UK being funded by Starbuck's voluntary 5p charge on single-use coffee cups
'Business as usual is dead': Global resource use smashes past 100 billion tonnes
Only fraction of metals, minerals, fossil fuels, and biomass extracted each year is reused, tipping planet towards ecological disaster, report warns
How Patagonia became the 'grand experiment' of sustainable business
Patagonia's Lisa Pike Sheehy and Mihela Hladin Wolfe talk about how the outdoor wear company aspires to be a sustainability trailblazer - and is well used to 'playing in the arena of hate and love' as a result
'Test and learn': Asda announces plan for sustainable store to trial refillable solutions
Refill stations, recycling points, and a 'naked florist' are all to be trialled at a Leeds store
'Circulytics': Ellen MacArthur Foundation launches new service to help firms slash waste levels
New tool will give companies a free assessment of their progress towards more circular business models
Cloth nappy maker TotsBots snapped up by Frugi
Frugi expands eco-friendly empire with acquisition of TotsBots and its sister reusable sanitary products brand Bloom & Nora
How Rheaply is helping universities and companies embrace circular asset management
A US start up reveals how it is encouraging organisations to enter the 'multi-usiverse'
Why we need more than plastic promises
As a major new report reveals the huge complexity shaping the industry response to the war on plastic, Green Alliance's Libby Peake argues a more coherent approach is urgently required
Starbucks deploys charges and jingles to tackle disposable cup use
Starbucks is experimenting with fresh ways of encouraging its customers to order their coffee in a reusable rather than disposable cup
Plastics Pact: One billion single use plastic items to be eliminated by end of 2020
Businesses need to deal with highly complex technical and economic challenges in order to meet plastic reduction targets, report shows
A Circular Christmas? Charity urges greener habits for party outfits
Hubbub is urging consumers to think twice before buying Christmas Party outfits they will only wear once
Asda to make plastic packaging a rare sight for its steak range
Cardboard trays trialed on one steak cut is to be rolled out to entire range from mid-December
How actor Michelle Pfeiffer championed the world's first circular fragrance line
The first C2C- and EWG-certified fragrances were made with a unique startup-nonprofit-corporate collaboration - Here's what that means for the cosmetics industry at large
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