One of the renowned office chairs, Herman Miller’s Aeron chair is getting an eco-friendly update with the infusion of ocean plastic. Designed in 1994, the Aeron chair was specially curated for people who spend most of their day sitting in their offices. Even after years,
Periods are messy – as every woman knows it, and they generate a lot of waste. While the invention of menstruation pads was pretty good, these single-use feminine hygiene products vastly end up in landfills as plastic waste. Aiming to reduce and eliminate single-use products,
Taking a step towards sustainability, major consumer goods producer Colgate-Palmolive has launched 100 percent recyclable toothpaste tubes in India. These recyclable tubes will first be used to make Colgate’s Active Salt and Vedshakti toothpastes, and then will later be moved out for other brands. The
Manchester City fans will have an unusual new snack option when they return to Etihad Stadium for their first Premier League home game of the 2021-22 season. Manchester City now offers “edible coffee cups” to its fans as part of food and beverage overhaul. The
In 2019, the Indian government decided to ban some single-use plastic items from October 2, on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The ban was to enforce on plastic bags, cups, plates, straws, small bottles and certain types of sachets in the most polluted
According to scientists, tap water is 3,500 times better than bottled water, for the environment. The adverse effects of plastic bottles on our ecosystem are 1,400 times worse than that of tap water. Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) used “life cycle assessment” to estimate
Odisha’s Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the “Sujal: Drink from Tap Mission” in Puri. With the launch of this initiative, Odisha’s Puri became the first city in India to provide high-quality drinking water, on a 24-hour basis from the tap. Clean drinking water is now
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling is quite famous and can be used in fiber applications. Recently, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced that it is doubling its PET recycling capacity by setting up a recycled Polyester Staple Fiber (PSF) facility. At present RIL recycles PET bottles at
The problem of plastic pollution has risen to such a magnitude that every corner of the planet is contaminated by its stark presence. Oceans are choking with plastic waste and much of it is scattered across the world’s beaches where cleaning smaller debris is a
As a part of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Sustainability Plan, the organizers announced to involve initiatives to use waste materials for different purposes at the event. Winners at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics shall be awarded on podiums made from discarded plastic waste from