Last month, Walmart became the first retailer in the U.S. to set a deadline for the reduction of chemicals of concern in consumables, promising to reduce them by 10% by the year 2022.

Thirty-three companies have come together, along with VTT Technical Research of Finland, to develop sustainable forest products which could be used as an alternative to petroleum based materials such as plastics.

A record number of over 300 participants attended TAPPI Nanotechnology Division’s 2017 International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials on June 5-8 in Montreal, Canada.

European Commission policy officer Kristine Dorosko announced at the Cleaning Products Europe Conference in March that stricter limits to the EU Ecolabel criteria for cleaning products will be introduced in June 2017. 

The Italian National Science Foundation (CNR) is conducting a foresighting effort to advance a Smart Grid for food.