During Circular City Week New York 2021, the Consulate General of Finland in New York (CGFNY) hosted, FROM WASTE TO FASHION: Solutions for Fashion Brands in Transition to Greener Future.
This event focused on the urgent environmental challenges in the textile and fashion industries with a discussion featuring Caroline Brown, managing director, Closed Loop Partners; Rachel Kibbe, CEO & founder, Circular Services Group; and Rolf Ekroth, fashion designer & creative director. The conversation was moderated by Francois Souchet, lead for Make Fashion Circular, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Brown opened the conversation by saying that it’s a very exciting time to be working in the circular economy. “A couple of the major changes we’ve seen emerge in the past few years,” she noted, include “the shifting of consumer sentiment, demanding transparency to understand where their products are from, how they’re made, and where they end up at end of life.” Also, “we’re see
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This April, the 5th annual EarthX E-Capital Summit will convene hundreds of investment firms, family offices, incubators & accelerators, dealmakers, established companies, startups, industry innovators, policymakers and thought-leaders from around the world to discuss new opportunities in sustainable investing given industry trends and the United States’ new presidential administration. The invitation-only event is designed to catalyze action by convening investment and business leaders in order to curate powerful partnerships and drive substantial, positive impact on investments, businesses, people and our planet.
The E-Capital Summit will take place from April 28 through April 30 and will be comprised of a two-day investor forum/conference, curated one-on-one meetings and a highly-competitive, global pitch competition.
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The FINANCIAL Two-month borrow-and-return trial will run in five Seattle stores as part of Starbucks ongoing commitment to reducing single use cup waste and goal to reduce waste by 50% by 2030, Starbucks notes.
Trial program allows customers to order their beverage in a reusable cup, each replacing up to 30 disposable cups.
Company partners with Seattle-area service, Ridwell, to offer customers an at-home option to return their borrowed cup.
The Starbucks cup is iconic. And while technically, Starbucks cups can be recycled under the right circumstances, they can only be used once. We know that needs to change.
“Promoting reusability is an important part of Starbucks goal to reduce waste by 50% by 2030,” said Michael Kobori, Starbucks Chief Sustainability Officer. “We understand the interdependency of human and planetary Health, and we believe it is our responsibility to reduce single use cup waste. We will lead the transition to a circular economy.”
Starbucks launches Borrow A Cup trial with reusable cups for Earth Month. Here s how it works Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY © Starbucks Starbucks is testing the Borrow A Cup program in five Seattle locations.
More than a year after Starbucks stopped allowing consumers to bring in reusable cups in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the coffee giant said Tuesday that it is looking to go greener.
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No, you can t bring your own cup back in yet, but Starbucks announced the Earth Month launch of the “Borrow A Cup” trial program in five Seattle stores. The program runs through May 31.
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