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🍫Hershey’s Launches First Vegan Chocolate
The new line, called Hershey’s Oat Made, is made –as its name suggests– using oat milk, and comes in two flavours: Classic Dark and Extra Creamy Almond & Sea Salt.
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👩🏼🌾Perennial Bioenergy Crop gets UK Government Funding
A project that will expand cultivation of bioenergy crop Miscanthus received over £150,000 in funding under the UK Government’s Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme.
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👟Nike Partners with Newlight for Carbon-Negative Sneakers
Nike is partnering with Newlight Technologies to explore alternatives for their sneakers after failing to reach their sustainability goals. Newlight’s AirCarbon is a carbon-negative bioplastic product, which serves as an alternative to plastic and leather.
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⛽Shell Campaign Labeled ‘Greenwashing’ by Watchdog
Shell's campaign, which shows fuel purchases as carbon neutral provided customers buy offsets, was denounced as greenwashing by Dutch watchdog the Advertising Code Committee. Shell didn't demonstrate it was actually offsetting emissions.
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🛍️Lab-Made Furs Could Replace Breeding for Fur
Dutch, female-led startup Furoid achieved the world’s first lab-grown fur; they bio printed a combined fabric of fur and inseparably attached collagen tissues in order to cultivate cell-based fur and wool.
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💧Mars puts Water Recycling on the Agenda for Mexican Sites
FMCG multinational Mars committed to ‘water balance’ at five of its manufacturing sites in Mexico by 2025 – targeting areas experiencing water scarcity. The project will be aimed at the sites for the brands Pedigree, Whiskas, Snickers and M&Ms.
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