Amazon & Ahold Delhaize making moves towards a sustainable future

Ahold Delhaize USA brands announce commitment to sustainable chemistry, transparent products and packaging.
In its latest move to make products and packaging more sustainable, Ahold Delhaize USA announced that each of its local brands — Food Lion, Giant Food, GIANT/MARTIN’S, Hannaford, Peapod and Stop & Shop, and its U.S. services company, Retail Business Services, which develops private brand products for each of the local brands — have implemented a new sustainable chemistry commitment.

Massive live concert planned in the spirit of Live Aid.
Dubbed “Global Goal Live: The Possible Dream,” the event, which is presented by nonprofit Global Citizen, aims to be the largest live broadcast in “cause event history,” according to a press release from organizers.

Amazon Accelerates Efforts to Fight Climate Change
Amazon committed on Thursday to meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement 10 years ahead of schedule and be carbon neutral by 2040, in the company’s most ambitious push yet to combat climate change.

What is a circular economy and how does it work?
The aim is, instead of trying to sell more individual items, to look to sell uses of those items. Rather than research and development being driven by the desire to always buy the newest item, a less linear life will be built into a product from the start.

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