In an effort to help curb some of the strains that disposable plastic puts on landfills, France is set to become the first country to ban all disposable cutlery products. By 2020, any disposable cutlery items will be required to be made from 50% biologically-sourced materials. By 2025, the cutlery will have to be made of 60% biologically sourced materials that can be composted at home. [1]
By Madlen Davies | Bureau of Investigative Journalism | September 15, 2016 Pharmaceutical companies are fuelling the rise of superbugs by manufacturing drugs in factories that leak industrial waste, says a new report which calls on them to radically improve their supply chains. Factories in China and India – where the majority of the world’s antibiotics […]
Press TV – September 16, 2016 European companies are accused of taking advantage of weak fuel standards in African countries to export highly-polluted fuel to West Africa, a new report says. The report, from the Swiss watchdog group of Public Eye, said major European oil companies and commodity traders take crude oil from African countries, […]
cbc news | September 11, 2016 … Baxter says there are likely still 800 cases of dynamite stored in a wooden shed on the abandoned base, along with buried ammunition all over the site. “The army sent a demolitions expert up to dispose of [the dynamite], but he said it was too risky to fool […]
Protest sign urging global conservation meeting to address the environmental damage from U.S. military bases. (Photo by Ann Wright) By Ann Wright | Consortium News | September 9, 2016 The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has come in for criticism due to its lack of attention to the detrimental effects of wars and […]
By Wayne MADSEN | Strategic Culture Foundation | 06.09.2016 President Barack Obama has opted to ratchet up military tensions in Asia as one of his last foreign policy acts as president of the United States. Using climate change and free trade backdrops at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China and the U.S.-ASEAN and East Asia […]
By Yves Engler | September 2, 2016 An elitist, nationalist, bias dominates all areas of Canada’s paper of record. On the front of last weekend’s Style section the Globe and Mail profiled Sonja Bata on turning 90. Business partner and wife of the deceased Thomas Bata, the Globe lauded Sonja for the “many contributions she […]
By Josh Klemm | International Rivers | August 16, 2016 It’s a little strange to write a fact sheet about a term that actually has no meaning. That’s right – there’s no real definition of a “run-of-river” hydro project. As our former director, Patrick McCully, once said of run-of-river hydro, “It’s a sort of Alice […]
By Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research | August 10, 2016 This year the World Social Forum is being held in Montreal, regrouping committed social activists, anti-war collectives and prominent intellectuals. Most of the participants are unaware that the WSF is funded by corporate foundations including Ford, Rockefeller, Tides, et al. Much of this funding is channelled to the WSF […]
© Flickr/ Michael Lusk Sputnik – 05.08.2016 Several Northern Mariana Islands conservation groups have sued the US Department of Defense and the Navy over live-fire exercises planned for the Pagan and Tinian islands, as part of a military buildup planned for Guam. Seen as a part of the US’ “pivot to the Pacific,” about 5,000 […]
