Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

A designated government minister for plastics pollution should be appointed, with a cross-departmental remit for controlling and preventing plastic pollution, and overseeing environmental policies relating to plastics and their polluting effects.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The volume of waste produced in England has remained largely the same for the past five years, presenting fresh questions as to how government, businesses, and households can successfully curb waste levels. The report also notes that raw material consumption dropped between 2013 and the end of 2017.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

The last decade has seen some progress with studying plastic pollution, but there are still significant challenges, such as a lack of comparability of reported results, especially when it comes to microplastic particles. River landscape in Pantanal, Brazil. We measure particle size in all samples.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

Artist Maarten Vanden Eynde discusses microplastics and nanoplastics, and the challenge they present with ocean pollution, at a 2017 event, Biotalk (image credit: FotoMediamatic , CC BY-NC 2.0 “We’re looking at developing a filter that can be more efficient at removing these plastics,” Chowdhury said.

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In July 2017 China, which is by far the world’s largest importer and recycler of scrap metals, plastic and paper, notified the World Trade Organization that it planned to effectively ban imports of 24 types of scrap , which its environment ministry called “foreign garbage,” by the end of the year. These worries are not unfounded.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

A newly constructed, fully automated mixed waste sorting plant in Stavanger, Norway – a region that showcased an “exemplary model of the Holistic Resource Systems framework”, according to the study. Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

The most common types of plastic were paint particles (49 percent), presumably originating from abrasion of ship painting, followed by polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with a share of 25 percent. Plastic particles have now been detected in almost all investigated living organisms.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The supermarket’s managing director calls for other supermarkets to slash their plastic footprints following UN report. Iceland Foods has announced it will offset its plastic footprint as it works towards becoming plastic-free across its own label packaging.

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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.

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Green Tech Challenge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

As modern society becomes dependent on technology, the amount of electronic waste will continue to increase. A global study revealed that the world’s e-Waste is expected to grow by 33% this year or reach 72 million tonnes (65 million metric tonnes). A separate report in 2015 said that only a third of Europe’s e-Waste is recycled.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The volume of waste produced in England has remained largely the same for the past five years, presenting fresh questions as to how government, businesses, and households can successfully curb waste levels. The report also notes that raw material consumption dropped between 2013 and the end of 2017.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

UK recycling levels remain stuck in the slow lane, with the latest official government statistics released today confirming the recycling rate for waste collected from households across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland stood at 46.2 Meanwhile the enormous waste mountain continues to grow.". Overall, the UK generated 222.2

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Back in 2017, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation tapped on large brands such as Burberry, Gap and H&M to make fashion circular — ensuring that clothes are made from safe and renewable materials, establishing new business models to increase their use and developing systems that would enable more old clothes to be turned into new garments.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown. Economic growth has driven ongoing demand for waste metals since 2000. How much is used worldwide? Advances in recovery technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Mura Technology, a UK-based technology firm, has announced that construction has started on the world’s first commercial-scale plant to use its ground-breaking “hydrothermal” process, which is said to be able to recycle all forms of plastic waste and could provide the raw ingredients for a sustainable circular plastic economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

the REMADE Institute recently issued its third Request for Proposals (RFP) to develop technologies to increase the recovery, reuse, remanufacturing and recycling of metals, polymers, fibers, and e-waste. Variations in market dynamics have led to dramatic decreases in plastic recycling rates in the U.S. manufacturing.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 12, 2021

The plastic crisis starts with petroleum-based products, is facilitated by consumer consumption and expands to pollution of the land and water. Plastic never completely goes away, and microplastics are now found in nearly every animal and plant on the planet. Meejee sets sustainable goals for skincare with less plastic.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Nighttime view of a waste incineration plant in Oberhausen, Germany. John Whitehurst, UK business manager with minerals and lime producer Lhoist, offers predictions on how new recycling and reuse targets will affect the types of waste being produced. The changing shape of waste. The waste is shredded, baled and ready to go.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Bank launches pilot project to 'eat' up recyclable credit cards that would otherwise be bound for landfill NatWest has today launched a trial of "reverse vending machines" designed to swallow unused plastic cards in a secure way so that they can be safely recycled. Moreover, more than 6.6 million batches of recycling.

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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.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. recycling system had been a mess for far longer — seeing as the country never fully developed the infrastructure to recycle anywhere near the amount of plastic waste it produces. Plastics Pact. Holly Secon. Indeed, only 8.4

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Plastic will be extracted from tens of thousands of used fridges every year for use in ventilation fans, company said. Online electricals retailer AO has announced it will recycle plastic from old fridges for use in energy saving ventilation products, as part of a new effort to cut down on waste and establish a more circular business model.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 were announced on 23 June at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. Launched in 2017, the awards have witnessed a dramatic and inspirational rise in the circular use of plastics through increased recycling and recyclability over the last the five years, said the organisers.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

Bogotá has 176 flea markets, according to Google, one criteria contributing to its top place ranking in Savoo’s zero-waste-cities analysis (image credit: Pedro Szekely , CC BY-SA 2.0 And by this reckoning, Bogotá takes the crown as the world’s zero waste capital. Bogotá came out number one in the analysis. South Korea (58%).

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Dropps’ mission is to provide safer cleaning products minus bulky, wasteful packaging and unnecessary ingredients. Related: Cora Ball emulates natural filtering of coral to remove toxic microfibers from your washing machine Eco-friendly packaging Each cleaning pod is made using a water-soluble membrane that leaves no waste behind.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” Another vivid example: plastic that has been used to wrap meat, which cannot be sent to traditional facilities without first being decontaminated.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

First, it’s zero waste. Fortunately, I found our amazing illustrator, Summer Ortiz Ross, back in 2017 and have worked with her since day one of Thoughtful Human. All of our products, packaging and shipping materials are totally plastic-free and made with either recyclable, compostable, or plantable materials.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 36

Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Singapore to Regulate E-Waste Last year, Greentech Challenge reported that global electronic waste was set to grow by a worrying 33% in 2017. Earlier this year, Singapore proposed regulation plans for e-waste reduction using the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) approach.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Perfume and flavour giant Firmenich has unveiled a flurry of new sustainability goals, yesterday committing to become a "carbon positive" company, recycle 100 per cent of its plastics, and produce 100 per cent renewable fragrances all by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Global assessment of soil pollution warns of major threat to food supplies unless urgent action is taken to accelerate adoption of sustainable farming practices and tackle industrial waste. Waste levels are also on the rise, with the report projecting an increase from two billion tonnes produced each year worldwide to 3.4

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

Global IT firm HP discusses an ongoing project to collect and process waste plastic in Haiti, for reuse in products such as ink cartridges. Ocean gyres also lead to more plastic washing up on Haiti’s beach, which all adds up to increased plastic pollution on land and in the surrounding Caribbean Sea. Waste plastic.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

From 1970 to 2017, the annual global extraction of materials grew from 27 billion tonnes to 92 billion tonnes, and it is expected to double again by 2060. However, in the four years since, barely any progress has been made, with this year's long-awaited Waste Prevention Programme predominantly restating many pre-existing policy commitments.

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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2021

What I’d love to do is turn it into a blade waste brokerage business,” Nagle said. Nagle’s blades-to-bridges dream is part of an emerging effort to find creative ways to deal with blade waste, a fast-growing part of the overall waste stream that poses unique challenges. Unfortunately, in the U.S. Bank’s team is betting we can.

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Grist

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One of the fossil fuel and plastic industries’ favorite “solutions” to the plastic pollution crisis may finally be coming under greater scrutiny from the federal government. And for hospital and medical waste, the Clean Air Act says that pyrolysis doesn’t count as waste incineration at all.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

First, it’s zero waste. Fortunately, I found our amazing illustrator, Summer Ortiz Ross, back in 2017 and have worked with her since day one of Thoughtful Human. All of our products, packaging and shipping materials are totally plastic-free and made with either recyclable, compostable, or plantable materials.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 28

Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

The company said it would also use recycled materials "wherever possible" to combat landfill waste, and step up its focus on improving the durability, reuse, and recyclability of its travel bags and suitcases, while improving access to repair services for consumers.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A new report from advocacy group The Changing Markets Foundation appears to reveal how, behind a veil of nice-sounding initiatives and commitments to address the plastics crisis – the plastics industry, consumer brands and retailers have obstructed and undermined proven legislative solutions to the crisis for decades.

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