Why Thomas Clark is turning flies and food waste into face cream
This 29-year-old is disrupting the beauty industry by using oil from flies that consume food waste to make beauty products.
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Can luxury brands drive B.C. old-growth logging out of business?
While a pitched battle is underway to save old-growth trees on the West Coast, a B.C.-based non-profit is conscripting a contingent of luxury brands that are pledging to eliminate packaging made from the world’s ancient and endangered forests.
Online retail — and Amazon — has a plastic problem
Amazon’s investors could soon force it to reveal how much plastic it mails to customers around the world each year.
When COVID hit, some baked bread. I started a zero-waste experiment
National Observer columnist Andrea Reimer is proud to say she's down to one bag of garbage every three months or so.
Improving Canada's recycling output will take 'radical changes': report
An analysis of Canada's plastic industry shows the industry producing plastic dwarfs the industry trying to recycle it.
Legal battle looms as government eyes plain packages for tobacco products
The proposal, which involves standardizing box sizes and prohibiting colours, logos and graphics on tobacco packages, is already lighting up industry players here, much like it has in other countries.