Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
This also means that just short of 1 million tonnes of plastic has been sent to Turkey for recycling since 2017. Split of plastic packaging exported for recycling by receiving country’s OECD or non-OECD status. Graph showing the total tonnages of plastic sent to countries for recycling 2017 to 2023.
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2020
How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Food companies have a dual responsibility when it comes to waste reduction aspirations: optimizing their operations to minimize food waste while reducing the amount of other materials — especially the waste associated with packaging — sent to landfill.
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Business Green
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis. Last year, Lidl's total plastic packaging footprint stood at just over 60,000 tonnes, the figures show. Our message is clear.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
· Aluminium packaging recycling body urges caution to avoid unintended consequences of a DRS. · As part of research released on 5 November by Alupro, the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, 2,000 UK adults[ii] were asked to imagine there was a 20p deposit on every can or bottle of any size, as proposed in Scotland.
Charged
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has arranged a $135-million financing package for EV manufacturer VinFast. Established in 2017, VinFast is a subsidiary of Vingroup, Vietnam’s largest private enterprise, and some boosters have predicted that it could become “ the next Hyundai.”
Business Green
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.
GreenBiz
MAY 8, 2020
Two ways P&G is working toward its packaging goals. In 2017, semiconductor and technology manufacturing giant Intel committed to restoring 100 percent of its global water use. We'll debate "Reusable Packaging in the Age of Contagion," "Can Recycled Plastic Survive Low Oil Prices" and "Repair, Resilience and Customer Engagement."
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