An alliance of Australia’s beverage manufacturers has responded to speculation that New South Wales could introduce a Container Deposit Scheme for beverage packaging, saying recent research has shown such schemes are “many times ...
Just before Christmas, NSW Premier, Mike Baird, and the Environment Minister, Rob Stokes, wrote to the National Packaging Covenant Industry Association (NPCIA)’s chairman, Grant Musgrove, and Coca-Cola Amatil managing director, Barry ...
Tags: packaging waste litter, recycling, Packaging
Seafolly, Australia’s leading Swimwear Company, announced a new partnership with L Capital Asia, the Asian private equity fund sponsored by LVMH Mo Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A. (LVMH). L Capital Asia 2 will be acquiring a controlling ...
Tags: Swimwear Company, Sporting Goods
Quiksilver Inc. reached a definitive agreement to sell its majority stake in online retailer Surfdome to Surfstitch of Australia for net proceeds of approximately (US)$16 million for its equity interest, loans and other amounts due from ...
Tags: Quiksilver, Surfdome, Sporting Goods
In the year 1920 in China, women still bound their breasts and those who wore low-cut clothing revealing even the slightest bit of skin risked being arrested by outraged authorities. But only seven years later, the Chinese government ...
Tags: Breast Binding, Bikinis
The City of Fernandina Beach, Florida, has completed modifications and upgrades to the lights at its Main Beach Park using LED turtle-friendly high power lighting that will protect sea turtle nesting without compromising the public's safety ...
Tags: LED tube, LED, Lights, Lighting, LED Lighting
(CHICAGO) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a solicitation for a second round of Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Grants. EPA will award grants totaling up to $4.5 million to eligible shoreline cities to fund green ...
Tags: EPA, Shoreline Cities Grants, Service
On the field of play, adidas outperformed all competitors: adidas outfitted yesterday's two finalists, World Champion Germany and runner-up Argentina, and is also the partner of adidas Golden Ball winner Leo Messi, adidas Golden Boot winner ...
Summit Brewing Company today announces the availability of three of Minnesota’s most popular beers in 12 oz. aluminum cans: Extra Pale Ale, Sága IPA and Summer Ale. The cans will begin hitting shelves next week, just in time ...
Tags: Canning Line, Summit Brewing
CIFF is a group of furniture related shows held in March/April and September each year with separate sections and dates for domestic and office furniture as well as areas for production machinery and components. Each section is large enough ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
The Australian Brewery's Mexican Lager Australian beer company The Australian Brewery has announced the return of its popular Mexican Lager in Australia. The Australian Brewery said the Mexican Lager has 20 per cent maize and a small ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, beer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy testified today before the Senate Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations at a hearing to discuss EPA's ...
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A biologist at the University of York is part of an international team which has shown that advanced DNA sequencing technologies can be used to accurately measure the levels of inbreeding in wild animal populations. The research by senior ...
Tags: DNA Advance, Dutch beach, PNAS, animal population
Rainmaker Mining Corp. ("Rainmaker") (TSX VENTURE:RMG) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an Option Agreement with JCMP Management Corp. to acquire a 3637 acre quarry permit on the Jayjay Lake silica sand project in northern ...
A US federal appeals court upheld a multibillion-dollar settlement between BP and the coastal residents and businesses hit by the company's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. The British energy giant reached a $7.8 billion ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy