A new refill retail model piloted in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, is helping reduce single-use plastic packaging, while offering cost savings on essential goods. Skubu, developed by Sonke in collaboration ...

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SINGLE-USE PLANET explores efforts to reduce the growing deluge of disposable plastic. Plastic is vital to our modern way of life—but not all forms of it. In search of why more single-use plastic ...

This article is part of CNN Underscored’s Earth Week, a weeklong focus on our planet and ways to celebrate and preserve it. We’ll be featuring tips on how to live more sustainably, products to help ...

A new report from the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) outlines practical approaches and potential investments needed to meet the state’s legally mandated source ...

Island Trading has joined Beyond Plastics Bermuda, receiving the organisation’s Champions Certificate for its efforts to ...

When Briana Bosch started her Colorado flower farm, Blossom and Branch, the fifth-generation farmer—her family had a dairy and corn farm—mimicked what her family had always done: plastic landscape ...

Oceana releases new poll, calls on lawmakers to continue momentum behind solutions to problematic plastics. Eight in 10 respondents reported concern about plastic pollution, with widespread support ...

This week, New York City is hosting over 900 events dedicated to creating bold solutions to the climate crisis. Across all five boroughs, business leaders, politicians, climate activists, scientists ...

Take Back the Tap is a student-led initiative at Cornell University that was first established in the early 2000s when the Student Assembly passed Resolution 35 called “Taking Back the Tap.” The ...