Environment
US to phase out federal purchase of single-use plastics
President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday announced plans to phase out single-use plastics in all federal operations by 2035, as...
TerraCycle launches SalonCycle in the UK to help professionals reduce waste
TerraCycle is bringing SalonCycle to the UK providing a nationwide solution for all hairdressers and hair and beauty salons to reduce...
“We aim to lift barriers to ecodesign”, Matthieu Paillot, Kisaco
Both a research office and a software publisher, Kisaco offers cosmetics companies of all sizes a tool to assess the environmental impact...
From polar bears to groundwater, nature is riddled with ’forever chemicals’
They didn’t exist a century ago but today PFAS "forever chemicals" contaminate the environment from groundwater to Antarctic snow to...
Sweden aims to boost plastic recycling with giant plant
Discarded crisp bags, ketchup bottles and Tupperware containers speed along conveyer belts at a massive high-tech sorting plant dubbed...
Climate change: warmest decade on record, UN warns
Ocean heat, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice loss and glacier retreat…: all climate change indicators reached record levels in 2023,...
World must act to stem surge of polluting trash, UN warns
The world generated 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste last year and the pile of trash is set to grow another two-thirds by 2050, the...
One in 10 premature births in the U.S. linked to plastic chemicals: study
One in 10 premature births in the United States have been linked to pregnant women being exposed to chemicals in extremely common plastic...
Leading French beauty players team up to explore packaging return scheme
Eleven key players of the French beauty market — nine brands (L’Oréal, Chanel, Pierre Fabre, Laboratoires SVR, Yves Rocher, Clarins,...
In tiny US community, big questions about chemical recycling
On the banks of the Susquehanna river in rural Pennsylvania, a quiet, unassuming plot of land is the unlikely backdrop for a simmering...
