May 27, 2021
Oceania has become the latest region to form a Plastics Pact, which has set out targets to reduce plastics waste by 2025.
The Anzpac Plastics Pact unites businesses, NGOs and governments from across the plastics supply chain in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands behind a “shared vision” of a circular economy for plastics, where it never becomes waste or pollution.
Led by the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), it has set out four targets to achieve by 2025. The first two are to eliminate the unnecessary and problematic plastics packaging through redesign, innovation and alternative (reuse) delivery models; and making 100 per cent of plastics packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable.
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In January 2022, the leading experts will come together at Expo 2020 Dubai to discuss how the latest innovations in renewable energy and smart city technology can drive solutions to the global challenges set to define a generation.
Between January 13-18 ‘In the Future, How will we Live?’ will be the focus of activity in the UK Pavilion, seeking to tackle some of the biggest questions we face as a society.
From resource use to net zero, green technology and decarbonisation, the programme promises to proactively address solutions for sustainable living.
The industry is estimated to have produced around 2.1bn tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2018 alone â the equivalent to the combined emissions of France, Germany and the UK
A cross-party group of MPs has continued to probe how the UK fashion industry is implementing initiatives to drive sustainability and improve its social impact – with executives from Primark and the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) the latest to take part in the Environmental Audit Committee s Fixing Fashion session.
An earlier investigation heard how the industry is estimated to have produced around 2.1bn tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2018 alone; the equivalent to the combined emissions of France, Germany and the UK. Major contributors included fast fashion, with UK citizens believed to buy more new clothes than any other European country, and throwing away over a million tonnes of clothing every year.
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The average household bins around 163 lbs (74 kg) of leftovers every year, the United Nations Food Waste Index Report 2021 has warned.
This contributes to the 931 million tonnes of food waste the world generates annually equivalent to 17 per cent of all the food available to consumers in 2019.
The report was produced by the UN Environment Programme in tandem with the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a British charity.
It is part of the so-called UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 12.3, which aims to halve per-capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels.
The findings of the report highlight how disposed-of leftovers are a global issue, rather than one confined to the developing world.