Europe is trying to kick its addiction to plastic, so businesses are on the hunt for alternatives. Bioplastics could replace 60 percent of plastic packaging on the market, but the switch is far from straightforward.
As Scotland’s whisky producers look for an alternative to feed their salmon with, one company offers omega-3 rich algae to do the trick.
Europe’s bioeconomy is worth €2.2 trillion and employs 18.6 million people across the bloc, but a third of citizens are completely unaware of it.
Leading scientists and conservation groups have said the EU’s plastics strategy must include ‘serious regulation’ given the potential impact of microplastic pollution on human health.
Children and young people spend too much time playing with smartphones and tablets, eating and drinking unhealthy foods and not moving much, said EU commissioner of health Vytenis Andriukaitis. So what is the EU doing about it?
“Even a narrow reading” of EU competition law is enough to block the controversial mega-merger between Bayer and Monsanto, according to a new legal study.
The number of obese children and adolescents worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades, according to the WHO. Health campaigners are pushing for a radical rethink of the EU’s common agricultural policy to help tackle the obesity epidemic.
Mega-mergers in the food sector have become commonplace, but EU laws do little to help it keep check on the impact this could have on the environment, public health, and food security.
One in three children aged between six and nine in Europe is either overweight or obese and the epidemic is threatening to bankrupt health services.
Despite the expanding costs – and waistlines – caused by rising levels of European obesity, little is being done to remedy the epidemic.
Health campaigners would encourage kids to drink water instead of fizzy drinks. But the watering down of an EU directive to protect children from sugary food and drink ads was not what they had in mind.