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Retail Asia19/07/2023

Australian investors have poured more than $1 million into plastics recycling service RecycleSmart, as co-founder Marco Prayer says he has invested his entire career to proving the business benefits of the circular economy. Sydney-based RecycleSmart provides households with a way to dispose of recyclable plastics that are unsuitable for regular recycling bins, offering to pick up unwanted […]

Retail Asia22/06/2023

Payments company Mastercard on Wednesday launched a global project to recycle credit and debit cards as part of a plan to save the billions of cards in circulation across the industry from landfill. Initially partnering with British lender HSBC Holdings Plc in eight branches in Britain, Mastercard said banks across the world, some of which […]

Retail Asia20/08/2021

“Australians love their coffee so it’s vital that they can easily and reliably recycle their disposable coffee cup and reduce the huge number of takeaway cups that currently end up in landfill each year,” Assistant Minister Evans said. “Rather than just being put into the rubbish bin and ending in landfill, Simply Cups collect and […]

Retail Asia19/05/2021

Global consumer company Unilever is to convert its entire toothpaste portfolio to using recyclable tubes by 2025. The company’s oral-care brands include Signal, Pepsodent, and Closeup. After four years of development, the recyclable toothpaste tubes will be available this year in two of Unilever’s largest oral care markets – France and India. According to Unilever, […]

Retail Asia24/12/2020

Back in May, the world’s largest foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), was going to announce that it was building a U.S. based chip manufacturing facility. The U.S. facility moved one step closer to reality. Taiwan’s ministry of economic affairs gave the go ahead for TSMC to proceed with the first phase of building the factory […]

Retail Asia22/09/2020

Japanese apparel business Uniqlo has launched a recycling initiative aimed at reducing the footprint of its products being improperly disposed of. Called Re.Uniqlo, the program enables the business to recycle old clothes into new clothes, redistributing old clothes to people in need, and, in Japan only, recycling old clothes into fuel and materials. Goods to […]

Retail Asia15/09/2020

McDonald’s is to launch a reusable cup option for hot beverages with TerraCycle’s circular packaging service Loop. At first, the service will be trialed in the US before being introduced in other markets. In the program, customers will get the durable cup for a small deposit, which can be redeemed by returning the cup to participating […]

Retail Asia20/06/2019

Little Yellow Bird has raised over $440,000 in an equity fundraising campaign – having passed its minimum funding figure of $300,000, and becoming New Zealand’s self-professed ‘first community-owned ethical fashion brand’. The campaign has only hours left, has attracted over 220 backers, and will see Little Yellow Bird scale itself up with the aim of increasing market […]

Retail Asia04/02/2019

For many in Korea, Lunar New Year is a time to meet relatives and exchange elaborately-packaged gift sets that could contain anything from fruits and raw meat to cans of Spam. But one side effect to this approach to gift giving is the excessive waste – especially those originating from gift set packaging – which […]

Retail Asia18/10/2018

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As part of McDonald’s initiative to use its scale to contribute to positive changes in the communities where it operates, Arcos Dorados – McDonald’s franchisee in Latin America and the Caribbean- will cease to offer plastic straws in its 2,100 restaurants across the region, from October 31. Straws will be provided only for those customers who […]

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Sydney startup RecycleSmart raises $1 million on Birchal

Mastercard launches global plan to recycle credit cards

7-Eleven, Simply Cups rescue 20 million cups from landfill

Unilever to convert to recyclable toothpaste tubes worldwide

Key Apple supplier is one step closer to building its new U.S. factory

Uniqlo launches initiative to recycle its products

McDonald’s US starting up innovating cup-reusing system with Terracycle

Little Yellow Bird Raised Half Million Dollar in Crowdfunding Campaign

Korea firm to use greener packaging for this holiday’s gift set

McDonald’s Starts Reducing Plastic