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2019 C.E. September 3
Iceland Supermarket’s ‘reverse vending machines’ reach one million plastic bottles recycled
Iceland supermarkets have recycled over one million plastic bottles in just over a year, thanks to a trial of 'reverse vending machines' in five of its U.K. stores.
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2019 C.E. August 22
Nepal bans single-use plastics in Everest region
Nepal will make the Everest region a plastic-free zone by 2020 by banning single-use plastics. The new rule will come into effect from January 1, 2020.
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2019 C.E. August 22
Africa is on track to be declared polio-free
It has been three years since the continent's last reported case of the virus.
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2019 C.E. August 21
Peru passes “momentous” ban on palm oil deforestation
Peru has just become the second South American country to commit to ending palm oil driven deforestation by 2021.
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2019 C.E. August 21
Mexican judge approves recreational cocaine use in historic step to ending country’s “War on Drugs”
Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has argued the country should decriminalize all drugs in order to take power away from the cartels and criminal gangs.
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2019 C.E. August 21
Hasbro to cut all plastic packaging by 2022
The toy maker will stop using plastic bags, elastic bands, and the shrink wrap that's usually found around Monopoly, Scrabble and other board games.
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2019 C.E. August 21
Chattanooga becomes first 100% solar-powered airport in U.S.
Tennessee's fourth largest city, Chattanooga, became the first American airport to be 100% solar powered -- and joins only a handful of airports who claim the same across the world.
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2019 C.E. August 20
World’s largest urban rooftop farm to open in Paris in 2020
French company Agripolis is opening a 150,000-square-foot urban farm in Paris, where it will grow more than 2,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables every day during high season.
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2019 C.E. August 20
California to open world’s largest highway overpass for wildlife
Hoping to fend off the extinction of mountain lions and other species, transportation officials and conservationists will build a wildlife crossing over a major Southern California highway.
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2019 C.E. August 20
California governor signs law to limit police shootings
California is changing the standards for when police can use lethal force under a law signed Monday that seeks to reduce officer-involved shootings.
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2019 C.E. October 25
Pledges for global climate fund reach $9.8 billion
Governments of 27 countries across the world have pledged $9.8 billion to the Green Climate Fund to help poor nations tackle climate change.
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2019 C.E. October 24
India cancels plans for huge coal power stations as solar energy prices hit record low
India has cancelled plans to build nearly 14 gigawatts of coal-fired power stations – about the same as the total amount in the U.K. – with the price for solar electricity “free falling” to levels once considered impossible.
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2019 C.E. October 24
New Jersey becomes first state in the U.S. to provide universal access to arts education
Universal access means all public schools provide some form of arts education and every student has the opportunity to participate in arts education programs as part of the regular school day.
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2019 C.E. October 23
California plans to end ‘lunch shaming’ with a new bill that guarantees meals for all students
SB 265 will require that all public school students have a "state reimbursable" meal provided by the school "even if their parent or guardian has unpaid meal fees."
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2019 C.E. October 23
Murder rate in India drops steadily to lowest since 1963
The murder rate in India in 2017 was the lowest it has been in the last 54 years. With the exception of 1963, it has never been lower since 1957, the earliest year for which data on this rate is available.
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2019 C.E. October 22
JPMorgan to hire more people with criminal backgrounds
"When someone cannot get their foot in the door to compete for a job, it is bad for business and bad for communities that need access to economic opportunity," said JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon.
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2019 C.E. October 22
Macy’s will stop selling fur by end of 2020 fiscal year
Macy's and Bloomingdale's will stop selling the animal product by the end of the 2020 fiscal year, including its "off-price" stores" — Macy's Backstage and Bloomingdale's The Outlet.
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2019 C.E. October 22
McDonald’s tests plant-based burger in Canada
McDonald’s and Beyond Meat have teamed up to bring a new plant-based burger to North America. Announced in September, McDonald’s is conducting a 12-week test of their new plant-based burger called the P.L.T.
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2019 C.E. October 21
Global renewable power capacity to grow by 50% in next five years
The International Energy Agency (IEA) new forecast finds that the world’s total renewable-based power capacity will grow by 50 per cent between 2019 and 2024.
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2019 C.E. October 21
NASA astronauts successfully complete first ever all-woman spacewalk
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the first spacewalk with an all-women team. Since cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to do a spacewalk in 1984, women have participated in 42 spacewalks.