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Circular Economy
Explainer: what is the circular economy?
7minute read time
Good health & well-being
Hands up who thinks all schools should have clean toilets?
19/11/2018 7minute read time
Hands up who thinks all schools should have clean toilets?
How access to safe, clean toilets can improve pupils’ wellbeing and learning
Sustainable Nutrition & Food Supply
Semilla Banner
16/11/2018 3minute read time
“Techniques to help people grow their way out of poverty exist”
Social entrepreneur Curt Bowen explains why he left the US to live in Guatemala’s farming communities – and launch a new way to fight malnutrition.
Collaborating & innovating for change
Plastics Main
08/11/2018 4minute read time
Three new ways we’re helping to tackle plastic waste
Another major step forward in our efforts to help tackle plastic packaging waste
SERIES: A circular economy for plastic
Waste is littering our planet, so we’ve pledged that 100% of our plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025. Read how we’re working with suppliers, NGOs, innovators and our brands to face the plastics problem
Collaborating & innovating for change
Plastics Main
08/11/2018 4minute read time
Three new ways we’re helping to tackle plastic waste
Another major step forward in our efforts to help tackle plastic packaging waste
Consuming Sustainably
Lynsey Forrest holding a bottle of Omo Eco Active
25/10/2018 2minute read time
The detergent brand creating a circular plastics economy
How OMO’s new bottles will prevent millions of tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean
Collaborating & innovating for change
Recycling banks in Brazil
04/04/2018 3minute read time
How breakthrough technology could significantly reduce plastic waste
Just a fraction of PET plastic is recycled. But following a new pilot, we’re on the brink of change
Sanjeev Das
Sanjeev Das
Global Packaging Director
Sanjeev Das
Sanjeev Das
Global Packaging Director
Sanjeev has been with Unilever since 2004, working in various R&D roles in Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care and now in Foods & Refreshment across different geographies. He is currently based at Unilever’s R&D site in Vlaardingen, in the Netherlands, working on Hellmann’s and Maille.
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Consuming Sustainably
Seventh Generation products
05/06/2018 4minute read time
“Every day is an opportunity to create change”
Plant-based homecare brand Seventh Generation’s packaging expert on the route to zero waste
Kelly Murosky
Kelly Murosky
Senior Packaging Engineer at Seventh Generation.
Kelly Murosky
Kelly Murosky
Senior Packaging Engineer at Seventh Generation.
Kelly Murosky is a Senior Packaging Engineer at Seventh Generation. From the initial pack design to prototypes, concepts, pilot testing, production and launch, she’s involved at every stage of the packaging development process.
Collaborating & innovating for change
Plastic waste on a beach
06/12/2017 3minute read time
Towards a new plastics economy
Our planet is awash with plastic. Here’s how we hope a circular approach will help tackle the problem
Collaborating & innovating for change
Fish eating plastic
05/02/2018 3minute read time
Four things businesses can do to fix the plastics problem
Interview with Dame Ellen MacArthur and Paul Polman
Ellen MacArthur and Paul Polman
Ellen MacArthur and Paul Polman
Founder, Ellen MacArthur Foundation; CEO, Unilever (respectively)
Ellen MacArthur and Paul Polman
Ellen MacArthur and Paul Polman
Founder, Ellen MacArthur Foundation; CEO, Unilever (respectively)
Dame Ellen MacArthur made history in 2005 when she became the fastest solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe. She launched the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in 2009, the mission of which is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Paul Polman has been the CEO of Unilever since 2009. He is committed to long-term, sustainable capitalism.
Collaborating & innovating for change
Employees at Mr Green
03/07/2018 4minute read time
Waste isn’t waste when it has a value
Changing how waste is perceived could have a hugely positive impact on society as well as the environment
Keiran Smith, Founder & CEO, Mr Green Africa
Keiran Smith
Founder & CEO, Mr Green Africa
Keiran Smith, Founder & CEO, Mr Green Africa
Keiran Smith
Founder & CEO, Mr Green Africa
Keiran is passionate about changing the future of recycling in emerging markets by alleviating the suffering and large-scale disadvantage of informal waste pickers and their communities. He set up Mr Green Africa with a business model that illustrates shared value at its best.
Collaborating & innovating for change
CreaSolv sachet waste
08/11/2018 3minute read time
Our solution for recycling plastic sachets takes another step forward
A look at the progress and plans for the testing of our CreaSolv technology
Collaborating & innovating for change
Nature is waste-free: it is time we were too
06/11/2018 3minute read time
Nature is waste-free: it is time we were too
Our economic system should take a leaf out of nature’s book and make less waste, says CEO Nina Butler
Sustainable Nutrition & Food Supply
Eat, Sleep, Work… Replenish
05/11/2018 3minute read time
Eat, Sleep, Work… Replenish
Changing America’s eating habits, one farm at a time
Collaborating & innovating for change
Andrew Winston
05/11/2018 3minute read time
Don’t ditch the day job
Wherever you work, whatever you do, you can be a positive force for change
Collaborating & innovating for change
Collaborating & Innovating for Change
02/11/2018 5minute read time
Given half a chance, young people will change the world
What makes a millennial become an agent of change? We discovered at One Young World 2018.
Equality For All
Unilever employee showcasing the product catalogue
01/11/2018 5minute read time
Social investing: why it’s time to get gender-smart
Introducing our new Lean Data toolkit designed to improve outcomes for women
Collaborating & innovating for change
Paul Polman
10/05/2018 4minute read time
Trust: the key that will unlock progress
Paul Polman
CEO, Unilever
Paul Polman
CEO, Unilever

Paul Polman has been CEO of Unilever since January 2009. Under his leadership, the company has a ambitious vision to decouple its growth from its overall environmental footprint and increase its positive social impact through the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan.

Paul Polman on LinkedIn
Good health & well-being
Adepeju Jaiyeoba, winner of the Prince of Wales Prize at Unilever’s Young Entrepreneur Awards 2018
31/10/2018 4minute read time
The woman making childbirth safer for thousands
A woman dies in childbirth in Nigeria every ten minutes. Adepeju Jaiyeoba is changing the story.
Collaborating & innovating for change
Hunter Lovins Banner
25/10/2018 2minute read time
We the people
Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism, on kick-starting sustainable change
Sustainable Nutrition & Food Supply
Chef's preparing food
16/10/2018 7minute read time
We’re helping chefs put sustainable change on the menu
Fresh thinking via a chef-driven manifesto, workplace wellbeing and plant-forward menus
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Technology that could cut PET plastic waste

Technology that could cut PET plastic waste

Building trust in fragrance ingredients

Building trust in fragrance ingredients

Thriving in an Upside Down World by Leena Nair

Thriving in an Upside Down World by Leena Nair

Connecting talented young Syrians with business leaders

Connecting talented young Syrians with business leaders

Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2017: Meet the winner and finalists

Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2017: Meet the winner and finalists

Explainer: Carbon Pricing

Explainer: Carbon Pricing

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