By Packaging Europe

For the first time at large international environmental event, plastic was the focus of discussion for a day-long event called Plasticity Rio  as part of the Rio+20 Earth Summit.  The event, organized by Ocean Recovery Alliance,…

By Conrad MacKerron

The problem of proliferating plastic waste on land and in the ocean was one of the many focuses of last month’s Rio+20 conference. One side event, Plasticity, focused on how companies and their stakeholders can find solutions by s…

By Jo Mackness

Will accountants save the world? That was one of the most provocative questions to come out of the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development last week. While it will take some time to get an answer to that question, the fact t…

By Richard Branson

If we don’t do something now, whales, dolphins, sharks and coral reefs will become the stuff of history lessons for our children’s children. The oceans are our planet’s new frontier, a huge area only partly explored and little re…