Results for Waste
Daily Media Briefing
April 19, 2018- IMF sounds alarm on excessive global borrowing
- Walmart to double charging network for electric vehicles
- P&G to buy German Merck’s consumer health unit for €3.4 billion
- Costa Coffee to recycle equivalent of all its takeaway cups each year
- EU circular economy plans clear major hurdle after MEP approval
Daily Media Briefing
April 17, 2018- UK government promises £61 million to tackle ocean plastic pollution with Commonwealth nations
- Investors, with $1 trillion, put weight behind call for big brands to step up climate targets
- Santander chair calls EU rules on payments unfair
- New Green-e Renewable Energy Standard for Chile launches pilot with Viña Concha y Toro
- Former Wells Fargo trader sues bank, claims wrongful termination due to plan to complain to regulators
Daily Media Briefing
April 13, 2018- Pret a Manger launches the UK’s plastic bottle deposit return scheme
- Report: World can limit global warming “without bioenergy with carbon capture and storage”
- US green group to launch methane detection satellite
- Indonesian billionaire using “shadow companies” to clear forest for palm oil, report alleges
- Singapore’s competition watchdog sets interim measures for Grab-Uber merger
Daily Media Briefing
April 12, 2018- New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of “carbon-neutral future”
- Nestle pledges to make all packaging recyclable by 2025 but faces criticism from Greenpeace
- Responsible Mining Index released, industry must improve approach to human rights and environmental protection
- IKEA Singapore gives Malaysian staff extra day of leave to vote in elections
- Argentina accused of caving to Trump by dropping carbon price from G20 talks
Daily Media Briefing
April 05, 2018- Gender pay gap deadline: 78% of UK companies pay men more than women, figures reveal
- BHP Billiton quits global coal lobby group over differences on climate change
- Royal Dutch Shell threatened with climate change legal action
- Report: Drop in plastic bags in British seas linked to introduction of 5p charge
- Hershey to spend $500 million to make its chocolate more sustainable
Daily Media Briefing
April 03, 2018- China customs seizes 110,000 tonnes of smuggled waste in 2018
- McDonald's unveils plan to phase-out plastic straws
- Wartsila backs calls to cut carbon emissions in shipping
- Indonesia threatens to shut down Facebook if privacy breached
- EDF Plans to Invest $10B in Energy Storage by 2035
Daily Media Briefing
March 29, 2018- Pharma company investors set to vote on executive pay and drug pricing
- Walmart urges Chinese suppliers to cut CO2 by 50 million tonnes per year
- Report: Mexico private security boom has increased corruption and use of force
- UK reverses opposition to tough EU recycling targets
- Facebook to limit use of data brokers for ad targeting
Daily Media Briefing
March 26, 2018- Uber exits south-east Asia with sale to rival Grab
- Americans less likely to trust Facebook than rivals on personal data
- Shell faces shareholder push on climate change goals
- Pilot scheme seeks to produce first “ethical cobalt” from the Democratic Republic of Congo
- US asks China to reconsider ban on foreign waste
Daily Media Briefing
March 23, 2018- Microsoft signs largest corporate solar agreement in US
- Britain intends to stay in Europe’s carbon market until at least 2020
- Mining companies struggle with wave of tax increases
- Great Pacific garbage patch found to be 16 times larger than previously thought
- Scientists use DNA-editing to dispense with the need for hops in brewing
Daily Media Briefing
March 07, 2018- Coca-Cola to launch alcoholic drink in Japan
- Ireland chooses BNY Mellon as custodian to manage Apple back taxes fund
- Trump administration sues California over laws protecting immigrants
- Report: UK plastics recycling rate exaggerated by packaging industry
- L'Oréal makes moves towards becoming carbon neutral in the US