ByChristy RomerOctober 7, 2019 Mkhitar Avetisyan is Undoing Decades of Bad Waste Habits in Armenia Armenia may be tiny, but it has a gigantic rubbish problem. The country — home to just three…
ByChristy RomerOctober 3, 2019 UK Supermarket Chain Sainsbury’s Bans Plastic Fruit and Veg Bags Sainsbury’s, one of the largest supermarkets in the UK, has just introduced a country-wide ban on the use…
ByKezia ParkinsOctober 1, 2019 Reusable Packaging Startup Loop Helps Big Brands Revisit the Milkman Model Those that remember the days when milk was delivered to each house by a familiar ‘milkman’ will recall…
ByKezia ParkinsSeptember 27, 2019 7 Amazing Ways Waste is Being Recycled Around the World Everything ever made will go back into the earth as either nutrition or poison. The fact is, we…
ByChristy RomerSeptember 26, 2019 The Best and Worst Countries at Recycling in Europe As it’s World Recycling Week, Global Shakers has had a look into the countries that have done the…
ByChristy RomerSeptember 24, 2019 This Former Refugee is Turning Life Jackets Into Socially Conscious Jewelry The global refugee crisis is ongoing, even if the world has stopped paying attention. The United Nations High…
ByKezia ParkinsSeptember 17, 2019 China is Using Facial Recognition Trash Bins to Make Sure People Recycle New weird and sometimes worrying applications of facial recognition appear to be cropping up in China every other…
ByChristy RomerSeptember 12, 2019 Could this Argentine Caterpillar Eat All Our Plastic Waste? Plastic, as we well know, is not natural. It’s made from oil, and unless it’s burned, it can…
ByChristy RomerSeptember 12, 2019 KitKat is Ditching Plastic Packaging. And It’s Thanks to These Experts In January 2018, food and drink giant Nestlé, the company that makes KitKat, announced what seemed to be…
ByChristy RomerAugust 30, 2019 Ethical Business: How Fairphone is Revolutionising the Smartphone Market We all know that our electrical goods are ethically compromised. We know that smartphones may use more than…