Southwest Airlines’ new inflight cup and stir stick are designed to reduce single-use plastics by more than 1.5 million pounds annually. [Photo: Southwest Airlines]
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines just found more ways to keep single-use plastics out of its planes, with cold drink cups made from a 75% bamboo pulp blend and new birch drink stirrers. The moves could reduce the airline's inflight single-use plastics "by more than 1.5 million pounds annually," Southwest said.
Irving-based Kimberly-Clark is seeking solutions to the world's single-use plastics problem—aiming for a 50 percent reduction in its use of new, fossil fuel-based plastics by 2030.
Biodegradable plastics startup RWDC, which is based in Athens, GA, and Singapore, raised $133 million in a Series-B round last year.
Fort Worth-based Range Resources (NYSE: RRC) has agreed to be acquired by Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based EQT (NYSE: EQT). The $13 billion all-stock deal would bolster EQT’s status as the country’s No. 1 natural gas producer....
Addison-based Firehawk Defense has reached unicorn status, closing a more than $150 million Series D funding round with a valuation of more than $1.4 billion.
Boston-based Advent International and West Palm Beach, Florida-based Rochefort Asset Management were the lead investors....
Fort Worth-based Range Resources (NYSE: RRC) has agreed to be acquired by Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based EQT (NYSE: EQT). The $13 billion all-stock deal would bolster EQT’s status as the country’s No. 1 natural gas producer....
Addison-based Firehawk Defense has reached unicorn status, closing a more than $150 million Series D funding round with a valuation of more than $1.4 billion.
Boston-based Advent International and West Palm Beach, Florida-based Rochefort Asset Management were the lead investors....