When I started this story last month, I never expected a standard interview request with a designer to turn into a bureaucratic two-step that took us to China and back.
Austin-based Whole Foods Market officially phased out the use of plastic shopping bags on Earth Day last week.
Simple Shoes has just launched a line of eco-friendly shoes called ecoSNEAKS. The shoes are made from a number of greener and eco-friendly components including organic cotton, rPET plastic and car tires.
Ribena (made by GlaxoSmithKline), the popular soft drink juice brand the in the UK will become the first major brand in the UK or the US to use 100% recycled PET (rPET) bottles in its packaging.
The popular drink currently uses PET bottles with a minimum of 40% rPET content. The brand will shift to 100% rPET content over the next six months.
