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Does ING Bank Finance Plastic Pollution? We Posed the Question at Their Annual General Meeting
Plastic production relies on capital to fund its operations. And right now, major banks like ING are supplying it without limits. Campaigners and members of the Break Free From Plastic movement took their concerns directly to ING's board in Amsterdam, exposing the gap between the bank's public sustainability commitments and its continued financing of virgin plastic production.
McDonald’s announced that it will phase out plastic straws in the UK and Ireland by 2019, and that it will trial alternatives to plastic straws in select restaurants in the U.S., France, Sweden, Norway and Australia later this year.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the closure of what he described as “a successful G7 Summit with ambitious objectives” on the environmental front, including a status quo commitment on climate change and a G7 Ocean Plastics Charter endorsed by five nations.
Incinerating plastic has been known to cause harmful emissions of heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, carbon emissions and other dangerous toxics.
The European Parliament's environment committee today voted to strengthen the European Commission’s overall plans to cut plastic pollution, under the so-called Plastics Strategy.
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