Plastics

The Savers family of thrift stores (Savers, Value Village, Village des Valeurs and Unique) announced the decision to phase out plastic bags from stores across the United States and Canada by the end of 2018. In place of the plastic bags, shoppers...

American Express Company announced a $250,000 grant to Ocean Conservancy in support of its International Coastal Cleanup and Trash Free Seas programs...

Fifty percent is the ideal recycled bottle content to help meet sustainability objectives and avoid compromising the recycling stream for future lifecycles, according to Phoenix Technologies International, a global producer of polyethylene...

The NaturALL Bottle Alliance is a research consortium formed in 2017 by Danone, Nestlé Waters and bio-based materials development company Origin Materials to accelerate the development of packaging solutions made with 100 percent sustainable and...

DeepGreen, a Canadian company that supplies the world with metals needed for economic growth and clean technologies, is contributing to the health of the oceans by being a part of The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) project to remove plastics from the Great...

This summer, global entertainment company Live Nation asserted its commitment to sustainability with the creation of a new employee education program and new employee roles focused on sustainability. Live Nation aims to achieve zero waste in 20 of...

The Philadelphia Eagles announced that Braskem, a biopolymer producer and the largest polypropylene producer in the Americas, will join the organization as a partner in recycling. Braskem will enter into a nine-year, sustainability-focused...