Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The forthcoming Plastics Recycling Show Europe includes a free-to-attend conference taking place at the RAI Amsterdam on 25 and 26 March 2020. Several materials focus sessions will explore the challenges, issues and opportunities within the sector for mechanical recycling, with sessions covering PET, PVC and Technical Plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) will now run as a virtual event from 9 to 11 December 2020. The PRSE Virtual conference will examine the latest developments in plastics recycling and practical solutions for the circular and sustainable use of plastics, dealing with plastic waste and better design for recycling.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Gillette plans to shave use of virgin plastics by 50% by 2030. Tue, 10/27/2020 - 02:17. P&G Corporate, Gillette's parent company, doesn't release numbers about how much waste is reused, recycled or incinerated across its brands. Reduce absolute virgin plastic by 50 percent. Use 100 percent recyclable packaging.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Misperceptions regarding the impact of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) on WEEE plastics recycling are addressed by a report [1] from the International Bromine Council (BSEF) released on 19 November. Electronic and electrical equipment uses plastics to make products lighter, more innovative, and cost effective. Key findings.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Advanced Recycling: What, When and How to Scale? . What is the state of the advanced recycling industry, and what will it take to get it to scale? There’s been a noticeable uptick lately in buzz around advanced recycling (also known as chemical recycling) and the promise of technologies that can fix the broken recycling system.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Despite record oil price fluctuations, circular plastic strategies prevail. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 01:45. And when crude oil prices fell into negative territory in April, the recycled plastic industry experienced a reckoning. Jesse Klein. So far, most big companies seem to be standing by their pledges.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 01:00. Also, we helped design clothes with natural and monofibers that are recyclable. Our recycling partnerships are local here in the U.S. Holly Secon. and help to keep our clothes out of landfills.". Infinity Goods.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Technology and recycling equipment firm TOMRA has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian Producer Responsibility Organisation for recycling plastic packaging. The companies will pair up to create a plastic packaging sorting plant located in Norway. Amland, SVP TOMRA Feedstock. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

A Dorset start-up says it is turning plastic waste into building materials, and looking to empower communities in developing countries to do the same. What we’re doing was made possible by an open-source network called Precious Plastic , which has enabled us to use an open-source mould for our first prototype. The tech bit.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Engaging Middle America in Recycling Solutions. consumers to increase national recycling rates? Last year, Shelton Group fielded an eye-opening study to gauge consumer awareness about the plastic waste crisis and its expectations of brands and policymakers for solving the problem. Mon, 09/14/2020 - 14:47. Holly Secon.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. Researchers from a dozen universities around the world found that, for every 1 percent increase in the amount of plastic a company uses, there is an associated 1 percent increase in its contribution to global plastic litter.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) published statistics on 7 December detailing household waste collected across all local authorities during 2020, as well as waste landfilled and incinerated in Scotland in 2020. percentage point reduction in household recycling rates from 2019 to 42%. million tonnes.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Starting a recycling business is your chance to combine passion with business. recycling rate, this sector has enormous potential for improvement. It leaves plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs to enter the recycling field to help build a greener world. What Do You Want to Recycle? With the U.S.’s

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. At the time of our conversation in early February, one of the most pressing items on Ellis’ priority list was releasing WBA’s 2020 CSR report and tooting the company’s horn. . So, when the Plastics Pact came out it was not something that was completely new to us.

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Terra Infirma

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Arwa Mahdawi, writing in today’s Guardian, takes the statistic that only 9% of all plastic ever produced has been recycled and concludes that all the sorting and cleaning we do as householders is just a scam by big business to make us feel better about using plastic. Let’s look at some more relevant stats.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

Retailer targets bread bags, crisp packets, cling film, and food pouches with aim to recycle 1,000 tonnes of soft plastics a year. The firm said it aimed to enable customers to return all their previously unrecycled soft plastic, regardless of where they purchased it.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

There are no 'silver bullet' solutions to plastics. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 01:30. Bacardi is calling its initiative "a silver bullet in the fight against plastic pollution.". It’s also worth noting that plastic makes up less than 1 percent of Bacardi’s packaging.) Plastic Waste. Lauren Phipps. Circular Economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

A new study will examine the feasibility of advancing fully circular value chains in Nigeria, to help close the loop on plastics waste. The work is being undertaken by an ongoing partnership between chemicals firm Dow and Empower, a Norwegian circular platform company which uses blockchain technology to track plastics waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

percentage point increase in recycling levels on the previous year. And it suggests a return to something more like normality, after the anomalous years of 2020 and 2021, which were impacted by restrictions. tonnes recycled, 0.11 was recycled, a 0.3 The same data reveals a meagre 0.3 tonnes sent to landfill and 0.14

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 2, 2020

From refill schemes to more practical and viable recycling options, there's a stronger sense of urgency to find solutions.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Fossil-based plastic production is still growing exponentially. Only 9% of all plastic is recycled and it can take hundreds of years to degrade. Recycling is critical, but the world cannot rely on that alone. Partnering with consumers to secure recycling behavior change . Mon, 09/14/2020 - 13:52.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2021

Supermarket claims to have met its pledge to remove one billion pieces of plastic, working with suppliers to remove unnecessary and excessive packaging of products. Our work to remove, reduce, reuse and recycle will continue into 2021. There is no place for unnecessary or non-recyclable packaging in our business.".

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

From design to recycling, opportunities abound to make solar more circular. Fri, 11/06/2020 - 02:00. Like any industry, the solar industry has unique machinery and equipment; specifically, its photovoltaic (PV) cells have silicon, metal, glass and plastic components that are melded together in order to create a functioning solar panel.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 9, 2020

Sun, 08/09/2020 - 14:59. rePurpose Global is a movement of conscious consumers & businesses going Plastic Neutral by financing the removal of ocean-bound plastic worldwide. Sponsor Website.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Electrical systems developer Thales and resource recovery firm Veolia have joined forces to create what is seemingly the first eco-designed SIM card made from recycled plastic. billion SIM cards produced worldwide in 2020, the two firms say have joined forces to help this market show its green credentials. With almost 4.5

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2020

Julie Zaniewski, North America sustainability director at Dow, says that the company's plans for 2020 include living out its sustainability strategy. That includes keeping plastic out of the environment and bringing circular economy solutions to life.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

UK chemicals firm INEOS announces it has made progress incorporating recycled plastics into more challenging applications, as Coca-Cola launches two new recycled plastics commitments in Europe. Saica are experts in recycling post-consumer plastic film.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

policy landscape around plastics, recycling and solid waste management? This two part policy session, organized in collaboration with the The Recycling Partnership, will focus on the role that brand and packaging producers can play in forging a stronger policy environment in the U.S. Mon, 09/14/2020 - 23:59. Holly Secon.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

policy landscape around plastics, recycling and solid waste management? This two part policy session, organized in collaboration with the The Recycling Partnership, will focus on the role that brand and packaging producers can play in forging a stronger policy environment in the U.S. Nina Butler, More Recycling.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

Both Evian and Volvic also set to become 'carbon neutral' in the UK in 2020, claims the French food and drinks giant. The move would push up the recycled plastic content across the entire UK Evian range to 70 per cent, the firm said.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Responding to the announcement, the Recycling Association chief executive Paul Sanderson suggested this time should be used to consider whether DRS is required at all. However, on glass, there is agreement to exclude it, from everyone except Wales. Nonetheless, the Welsh government intends to include glass when their own scheme launches.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Project to create recyclable Heinz Beanz Snap Pots will help put 22 tonnes of plastic back into the circular economy. Fully recyclable Heinz Beanz Snap Pots will soon hit shelves as part of a pioneering trial by the food giant and supermarket Tesco designed to make it easier to process previously hard to recycling plastics.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Today we celebrate Global Recycling Day, March 18th. But it is also a significant moment for us at Dow, as a plastics manufacturer, to reflect on what recycling means for us and our future. We need to radically redesign how we make plastic. It is a day for the world to come together and put the planet first.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Over 6,500 Maldon households are now able to take part in the Flexible Plastics Fund's (FPF) 'FlexCollect' trial, makes flexible plastic a part of the normal fortnightly recycling collections for the town.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project has received €6,984,813 funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Reduce environmental plastic pollution levels.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 3, 2021

Recycling and reducing waste are the major focus of the green initiatives in many industries. The waste and recycling industry has had to make adjustments to the gaps encountered in 2019. The post Waste, Recycling Trends to Watch in 2020 appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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