By KELIN DILLON Mexico City has started 2021 with a ban on single-use plastics throughout the capital, according to Mexico City’s Secretariat of Environment (Sedema). As of Jan. 1, 2021, the marketing, distribution and sale of single-use disposable plastics is no longer allowed in Mexico’s capital. Under the new ban, all plastic cutlery, straws, plates, cotton swabs, balloons, single-use coffee
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By ANIS H. BAJREKTAREVIC A major new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was just released in Korea on Oct. 8, and although it is nearly 800 pages long and includes more than 6,000 scientific references, it can be summarized in few sentences: The average global temperature is now 1 degree Centigrade above its pre-industrial levels. That increase is already
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Sustainability and good environmental stewardship definitely count as pluses in the PR department of any multilateral corporation. But for Unilever, the British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company that produces everything from chicken soup to hand soap, the Sustainable Living Plan – a seven-year experiment with a global program aimed at reducing the firm’s carbon footprint, boosting recycling, cutting
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