Zero waste
Zero wasteCoca-Cola, Nestlé and Danone will change recycling claims on single-use plastic bottles sold in the EU, making clear that caps and labels are excluded from 100% recycled claims.
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Zero wasteFord zero waste 2028 is now the carmaker's stated goal for its factories worldwide. In an update published on 21 October 2026, Ford senior environmental engineer Dan Esch said the company aims to achieve zero waste to landfill from manufacturing across its global operations by 2028, building on steady progress since 2022. Ford reports 84
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Zero wasteSouth Africa joins the $60 million Global Electronics Management programme for repair, reuse and recycling across 16 countries, including nine in Africa.
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Zero wasteResearchers at ETH Zurich have developed a simpler, low-energy method for acrylic glass recycling that recovers up to 98% of the material as pure monomers.
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Zero wasteThe U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has launched TRUE v2 zero waste certification, the next iteration of its TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) zero-waste certification program. The new version was unveiled in Washington on 20 October 2026 and sharpens the link between zero-waste strategies and measurable environmental impact. The TRUE program has been certifying
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Zero wasteResearchers in Hawaii are paving roads with asphalt made from recycled fishing nets and plastic waste — a circular-economy answer to the islands' waste crisis. (Illustration: Watan News) Hawaii is testing a striking new use for its marine plastic waste: turning discarded fishing nets and household plastics into road asphalt. Early results show the recycled-plastic
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Zero wasteThe United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has quietly retracted its long-standing public claim that the "forever chemicals" PFOA and PFOS had been phased out of US production, acknowledging on its website that these substances may still be manufactured, imported and used by companies. The change followed a complaint filed on 25 October 2025 by
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Zero wasteThe Jakarta plastics treaty process gained new momentum this week as Indonesia and Norway convened delegates from 11 countries in the Indonesian capital for a three-day informal consultation aimed at finding common ground on a legally binding global agreement to end plastic pollution. The meeting, held from 13 to 15 October, was the latest in
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Zero wasteSouth Africa's waste sector must stop being treated as a problem for government to manage and start being recognised as an engine of economic growth, enterprise creation and environmental sustainability. That was the central message from Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Bernice Swarts at the 2026 Circular Economy Summit, which brought around
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Zero wasteThe United States has taken a first federal step toward tackling one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world: discarded clothing. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree has introduced the Textile Waste Reduction Act, a bill that would create the first coordinated federal strategy to reduce textile waste and build a circular textile economy in the country.
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Zero wasteThe Zero Waste Foundation (Sıfır Atık Vakfı) has tied its New York climate diplomacy directly to COP31 in Antalya, joining Türkiye’s new mechanism to support green industrialisation in the world’s Least Developed Countries — with a formal launch expected at the November summit, according to an announcement issued by the foundation on 12 October. From
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Zero wasteCircular Action Alliance has submitted its final $1.1 billion SB 54 programme plan to CalRecycle; the state has 75 days to decide before the producer-funded recycling programme starts on 1 January 2027.
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India has proposed allowing chemically recycled plastic in food packaging, as the EU prepares to ban plastic-waste exports to non-OECD countries from 21 November.
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Green JournalismAmphora Media's cross-border investigation "Profit in Every Drop" has won Environment and Planning Journalism at the Malta Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismBroadcast journalists from Namibia, Zambia and Senegal have begun a two-day climate reporting programme under the AUB–Green Climate Fund Climate Impact Stories Partnership, aiming for accurate, human-centred, solutions-focused coverage.
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Green JournalismEntries have opened for the 2026 Climate Media Awards, celebrating African reporting on how communities grow, share and source food in a changing climate.
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Green JournalismUN-OHRLLS has opened a fully funded journalism fellowship for reporters from 44 least developed countries to cover the Doha Programme of Action Midterm Review in Doha on 25-27 March 2027. Applications close 30 November 2026; ten fellows will be selected.
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Green JournalismCanada and United Nations University experts brief journalists on 2 November 2026, a week before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Green JournalismStephanie Wallcraft has won the 2026 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award for her article on Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Guide, with Nadine Filion as runner-up.
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Green JournalismGrist has launched Distorted, a months-long reporting series on how misinformation spreads before, during and after extreme weather, and how trusted journalism can help communities find the truth.
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Green JournalismThe UN's first comprehensive restoration assessment, published on 29 October 2026, gives climate journalists a verifiable global scorecard: 252 million hectares under restoration across 149 countries, but finance must more than quadruple to meet 2030 targets.
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