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•  Bloomberg reports that Unilever has committed to spending $1.2 billion "to help its suppliers adopt technologies to eliminate the use of fossil fuels in the production of cleaning products by 2030 … Unilever’s is the first large investment in a sector that has finally begun looking to replace oil in its production process with ingredients derived from wood or microbial fermentation, or even recycled carbon from other industries."