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Extra 823 million plastic bottles will be produced under proposed DRS, warns aluminium packaging recycling group

Envirotec Magazine

. · One in five people will lose their deposit as they continue recycling at home. An ‘all-in’ deposit return scheme for drinks containers could result in an extra 823 million plastic bottles being produced[i], inadvertently adding to plastic pollution – one of the key issues the scheme is trying to solve. iv] Excluding milk bottles.

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Heimplanet celebrates 9 years of innovative inflatable tents

AGreenLiving

Founders Stefan Clauss and Stefan Schulze Dieckhoff got the idea for the inflatable tents while on a trip to Portugal in 2003. The company first released a line of inflatable tents in 2011; now, with summer 2020 approaching, Heimplanet is reminding outdoor enthusiasts that there has never been a better time to go camping.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. By 2025, it wants to achieve 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. By 2025, it wants to achieve 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging.