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Tramontina Demonstrates Sustainability Commitments Through Inagural Taste of Tramontina Event

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Friday, October 7, 2022
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SUGAR LAND, Texas, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Leading housewares manufacturer Tramontina USA has introduced an event series titled 'Taste of Tramontina' to highlight the overall brand experience through different themed activations. The inaugural event focused on sustainability, in celebration of the brand's renewed commitment to ESG and its focus on instilling sustainable business practices across its operations. Adding to its long history of eco-friendly practices, the first iteration of Taste of Tramontina honored the partners and organizations that are helping make its ESG goals a reality, most notably Voice of the Oceans.

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  • SUGAR LAND, Texas, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Leading housewares manufacturer Tramontina USA has introduced an event series titled 'Taste of Tramontina' to highlight the overall brand experience through different themed activations.
  • We look forward to utilizing the Taste of Tramontina platform for many more unique brand touch points to come."
  • "Like Tramontina and Voice of the Oceans, I have deep familial ties to sustainability especially when it comes to seafood.
  • And for more information on the next Taste of Tramontina event, follow Tramontina on Instagram at @ tramontinausa .

TRAMONTINA USA DRIVES SUSTAINABILITY FORWARD - TRANSITIONS TO 90% RECYCLED MATERIAL IN SINGLE-USE BAGS

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Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SUGAR LAND, Texas, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shortly after announcing its partnership with Voice of the Oceans to combat plastic pollution in our seas, leading housewares manufacturer Tramontina USA today revealed its next actionable sustainability initiative: a transition from all non-recycled single-use poly bags used in packaging to bags with a minimum of 90% recycled (LDPE) content, reducing the packaging CO2 emissions by nearly 60%. A result of Tramontina's ongoing partnership with environmental consulting firm Searious Business, the impact of this change will be recognized across nearly 10 million poly bag units used annually and be completed for all items with production dates beginning February 2023.

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  • "It is our mission to help conscious companies like Tramontina maximize their sustainability efforts and stimulate wide-scale organizational change," said Willemijn Peeters, Searious Business.
  • By combining this commitment with a focus on their own business practices, Tramontina is zeroed-in on making lasting change for today and tomorrow.
  • In 2021 alone, 92% of the electricity acquired by the Group's companies were from renewable sources and 82% of waste generated was recycled.
  • Founded in 1911 inBrazil, Tramontina is an international brand with more than 110 years of high-end housewares manufacturing experience.

Voice of the Oceans Docks in Miami

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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220601006095/en/
    Heloisa Schurmann at the helm as Voice of the Oceans docks in Miami (Photo: Business Wire)
    Our sailboat, Kat, is a sustainable biosphere where we employ viable solutions for waste management and other technologies to protect the oceans and the environment, said David Schurmann, CEO of Voice of the Oceans.
  • Voice of the Oceans passage through Miami continues to be supported by The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex Brasil), Mulheres do Brasil, Route Brasil, Clara Piquet, Piquet Law Firm and Piquet Realty.
  • Voice of the Oceans ' purpose is to document the extent of the plastic pollution problem and identify solutions that protect the oceans and improve our planet.
  • Micro- and nano-plastics found in the oceans also prevent the oceans from playing their role in sustaining the environment, such as producing oxygen and maintaining climate balance.

Changing Markets Foundation: Fashion industry must end addiction to fossil fuels

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021
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Changing Markets found synthetic fibres represent over two-thirds (69 percent) of all materials used in textiles, requiring more oil than the annual consumption of Spain.

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  • Changing Markets found synthetic fibres represent over two-thirds (69 percent) of all materials used in textiles, requiring more oil than the annual consumption of Spain.
  • As part of its Synthetics Anonymous report, Changing Markets Foundation surveyed 46 of the top fashion houses on their use of synthetic materials.
  • Speaking at COP26 in Glasgow George Harding-Rolls, Campaigns Adviser at the Changing Markets Foundation said: "The fashion industry uses a significant amount of oil and gas to produce cheap fast fashion garments, yet its addiction to fossil fuels flies under the radar."
  • Livia Firth, Founder and Creative Director of Eco-Age said: "The research undertaken by Changing Markets has revealed the shocking extent to which fashion brands rely on fossil fuels to mass produce fashion lines at increasingly low prices."

Nine years to save the world from plastic environmentalists say

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Thursday, October 21, 2021
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Plastic Soup Foundation Director Maria Westerbos said that by 2030 the harm caused by plastic pollution to human health and the planet would be irreversible.

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  • Plastic Soup Foundation Director Maria Westerbos said that by 2030 the harm caused by plastic pollution to human health and the planet would be irreversible.
  • And she called on the World Health Organization to declare plastic waste a public health emergency.
  • The comments were made today at the Plastic Health Summit in Amsterdam.
  • "We urgently need to fund further research to understand the risk of plastic in our bodies and how to mitigate it.