Politics Ikea’s race for the last of Europe’s old-growth forest The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.
Causescommons.wikimedia.org Superstores can meet half their electricity needs with rooftop solar, says a new report From Walmart to Ikea, a report finds that the rooftops of big-box stores offer enough solar potential to power the equivalent of 8 million American homes.
www.treehugger.com IKEA assembles a future without plastic packaging Furniture retailer IKEA says it will be plastic-free by 2028.
Causescommons.wikimedia.org Ikea says it will eliminate plastic packaging by 2028 As part of the company’s goal to become fully circular, it needs to work to eliminate the 10% of its packaging that still uses plastic.
Top Story Amazon, Ikea and other big companies commit to zero-emission shipping by 2040 Organized by the nonprofit Aspen Institute, the initiative also counts Unilever, Michelin and Patagonia among its signatories.
Solutions Photo by Rendy Novantino on Unsplash Amazon, Ikea, others commit to zero-carbon shipping by 2040 Nine major companies, including Amazon.com and Ikea, today committed to using exclusively zero-emissions ships to transport their cargo by 2040.
Solutions grist.org What’s the true cost of retail giants shipping your junk across the ocean? Tracing the impact on the environment from shipping any of these goods is tricky to do.
