Sustainability Newsletter

?? It's time for the weekly?#sustainability ?news!

Welcome back to Evreka's Sustainability Bulletin :) We will be here every Thursday with developments from around the world.

Stay tuned and have a?#ZeroWaste ?Day for a more?#sustainable ?future!

???With rising pressure on companies to demonstrate circular performance,?sustainability?has become an inevitable field to consider. The?Circular Transitions Indicators?(CTI) framework helps companies respond to this growing demand by providing a way to measure?circularity?and give insights into how to reduce primary resource use and?waste?generation. WBCDS - World Business Council for Sustainable Development and 30 companies shaped CTI v3.0 to support the business need for a universal and consistent way to measure circularity. Read more

?? The U.S. Senate unanimously passed two bills that would improve rural recycling and composting accessibility as well as boost data collection, sending the legislation to the House for a vote. The recycling infrastructure legislation would set up a grant program to bring money to materials recovery access and transportation. The accountability bill would require a handful of new reports to assess processing capacity, end markets and more for recycling and composting. Read more

?? The Sprite bottle will no longer be green! Coca-Cola announced that it will be changing the packaging for its lemon drink Sprite from a green plastic bottle to a clear one. The new look will be available in the market starting this month in a move aimed at reducing the carbon and plastic footprint of the company. The new packaging is expected to increase likelihood of recycling. Read more

?? Car-free futures: How European cities are embracing green transport! From 5mph streets to 15-minute neighbourhoods, how are different cities giving cars the boot? Free public transport in Tallinn. A pedestrianised city centre in Pontevedra. Reams of new bike highways to connect Berlin to its suburbs. These are some of the bold ways that Europeans are challenging the dominance of cars in their lives. Read more

?? In 2021, the House of European History, together with other museums, started a project to investigate how waste was dealt with in Europe in the past.?The emphasis of the project is on waste as an important factor for social change.?A temporary exhibition on this subject is being prepared in the House of European History, as well as a collaboration between eleven museums from ten European countries dealing with natural history, ethnology, art and archaeology at local or national level.?All these museums look in their collections, programs and working methods for things that have to do with garbage and can be of interest to their visitors. Read more

?? Dutch are reducing waste by fixing broken objects with online local barter network! The guilder is a repair exchange platform, enabling the repair of broken objects with local knowledge, skills, and tools—but without any money being exchanged. Objects like chairs, benches, tea pots, bikes, and backpacks have all be successfully repaired since the guilder went live at the start of 2022. Read more

?? Nowadays, paper straws are often used as an alternative to plastic straws.?This type of straw is often advertised because of the 100% biodegradability, but can these alternatives to plastic really be called sustainable and biodegradable? Read more