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Rep. Jamie Raskin announces the death of his 25-year-old son Meagan Flynn © Drew Angerer/Getty Images Thomas Bloom Raskin (left), his mother Sarah Bloom Raskin and his father, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), stand on the family’s front porch in Takoma Park, Md., in May. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) announced the death of his 25-year-old son in a statement Thursday evening, saying his family was “devastated” by the loss. His son, Thomas Bloom Raskin, was a second-year student at Harvard Law School — where both his parents earned law degrees — and was a graduate of Amh...

A Scottish potato business has cut almost 27 tonnes of plastic from its packaging in a year. Scotty Brand said it introduced a raft of plastic-saving measures across its range to help protect the environment in September 2019 which included thinner, recyclable plastic on its 2kg potato bags, Baby Potato bags and Chippy Chip packs and removing trays inside its Baking Potato packs. In total, these steps have seen Scotty Brand save 26,890kg of plastic. The plastic savings are part of a wider initiative to protect the environment with parent company Albert Bartlett also introducing redu...

Picnooga Launches Searchable Collections Website Sunday, December 20, 2020 Picnooga, the Chattanooga Historical Society, launches a searchable historical collections website making available over 350 postcards and portraitures from Chattanooga’s past.  Included is a small fraction of their collections donated and acquired over the past six years. In 2021, Picnooga hopes to have the majority of its archive accessible online.  EPB sponsored the website. “This soft launch is just the beginning of something much bigger,” said David Moon, president of the Historical Society.  “We�...

Share Add to Bookmarks WRAP and the retail industry have declared in favour of bringing textiles under an extended producer responsibility (EPR) regime. Representatives of both told a parliamentary inquiry this week that textiles should be next in line for EPR after its intended extension to packaging. Questioned at an Environmental Audit Committee meeting by Labour MP Feryal Clark, WRAP’s head of business collaboration David Moon said that, despite progress on reducing the carbon footprint of textiles, more clothes were being bought and discarded. This meant “the carbon footprint is...