Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The graph below shows the amount of packaging placed on the UK market reported by registered packaging producers since the early days of the packaging waste regulation. Figure 1: Packaging placed on the market. The government has decided to keep packaging waste recycling targets for 2023 at the same level as 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Viridor has chosen the very latest in sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA Recycling for two of its polymer recycling plants. Meanwhile, a new AUTOSORT® FLAKE unit has been installed at Viridor’s Skelmersdale polymer recycling and reprocessing facility in Lancashire, boosting throughput and elevating the purity of PET flakes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Company announces goal to ensure Walkers, Doritos, and Lay's crisps use recycled or renewable plastic packaging by end of the decade. PepsiCo Europe has today announced a new ambition to replace all virgin plastics used in its crisp and chip bags with 100 per cent recycled or renewable plastic by 2030.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Date/Time: January 18, 2022 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) Companies are innovating at an unprecedented speed to offer products that are more sustainable and provide greater value to customers. More: Recyclability vs Recycling Infrastructure: How to Engage Stakeholders and Align Solutions.

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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. The seven winners are: • Automotive, Electrical or Electronic Product: Sustainable modular headliner for vehicle interiors and downstream recycling solutions by Grupo Antolin.

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Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sustainability is the “new normal” From food production, to packaging, to fashion to lifestyle products, there is a clear effort to replace traditional demands with sustainable alternatives. It’s highly likely that the demand for sustainable products by consumers will make their production mandatory in the next few years.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. As the world's largest drinks producer, the Coca-Cola Company's decarbonisation and sustainability efforts have to be supersized.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Things like recyclability impediments. A big focus of the Sustainable from the Start program is reducing GHG emissions, sure, but also things like discouraging the use of non-recyclable packaging, because that's really important. And what steps are you taking to increase the use of recycled content in your packaging?

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Emissions from farm to table to landfill Emissions are generated at every stage of the food system, from the production of food on farms to transport and refrigeration to processing and packaging to consumer dietary choices and, ultimately, to food waste. In a 2022 paper published in Nature Scientific Reports , Ciniro Costa, Jr.,

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

"While we've made great progress in better predicting daily bakery demand and accelerating our charity redistribution, we've been looking at how we can innovate our processes to ensure we continually prevent waste.". M&S is also using 100 per cent widely-recycled packaging for the new garlic bread products.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2023

The good news is we've already removed 100 tonnes of plastic packaging from deliveries to our customers - just one example of how we're reducing waste and promoting a circular economy. On the former, we're already reusing, reselling or recycling 96% of our waste network equipment. There are several more examples below.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The new Cadbury Plant Bar is made with almond paste instead of milk and will be available to buy from Sainsbury's in November, before being rolled out across other retailers from January 2022. The bar will be packaged in 100 per cent plant-based ISCC certified bio-sourced plastic wrapping and will be sold at a retail price of £2.50

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

· New HydroPRS process creates raw ingredients for “infinitely recyclable new products” · World-first commercial-scale plant starts construction in Teesside, UK, backed by global partners and UK Government. tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world.[iv] iii] The UK alone produces 2.4m

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

New report warns EU faces higher emissions if it fais to deliver on recycling targets. The European Commission is facing calls to introduce more ambitious measures to drive up recycling rates for drinks packaging, including glass, metal, and plastic bottles, or risk seeing decarbonisation and resource security efforts derailed.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The company's first clean power deal - which will see it purchase power from a Texas wind project that broke ground this January - will cover half of its US power demand, it said. Whirlpool has also pledged to enhance its environmental footprint by curbing plastic pollution and extending the life of its products.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Download the full report and data (clients) Highlights 💰 2023 investment: Funding in 2023 totaled $32bn, down 30% from 2022, although CAGR remains high since 2020 at 23%. CAGR since 2020 is 23%, but has slowed since the end of 2022 which was 32%. 2023 saw a 29% increase in the cumulative total.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jeremy Hunt also unveiled a £6 billion extra package of support for initiatives like retrofitting to insulate homes and upgrade heating systems, from 2025 – although it wasn’t clear if this was new money or not. Standout announcements included a national pledge to reduce the energy consumption from buildings and industry by 15% by 2030.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025. Responsible sourcing is a big focus , with the company aiming for 100 percent sustainably sourced tomatoes by 2025, 100 percent sustainable and traceable palm oil by 2022, and 100 percent cage-free eggs globally by 2025 (among other ingredients).

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

With only a week left for industry to respond to the consultation on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging Waste , the UK’s largest compliance scheme, Valpak, has released detailed modelling for a range of the proposed options. The modulated fee system aims to encourage the design of more sustainable packaging.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

The recommendations contained within the report include revalorising plastic ‘waste’ to support green growth and incentivise the emergence of next generation plastics production and recycling technologies. Incentives for waste management bodies to recirculate plastics, fostering the growth of new production and recycling technologies.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

The government's proposals for a sweeping new plastics tax were placed under renewed scrutiny last week, with companies working to develop sustainable packaging alternatives warning that the tax risked penalising their efforts to stem the rising tide of plastic pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Activists fighting deforestation in Indonesia have spoken out against calls from the packaging and fast food industry for paper-based packaging to be recognised as sustainable in EU law. The European Commission launched its Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations in November 2022.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We all know that giving waste a second life is more carbon-efficient than incinerating it, but reaching a definition on what makes an item 'recyclable' is one of the most complex challenges policymakers currently face. The proposal states that packaging (all materials) entering the EU market must meet design for recyclability criteria.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

The UN and the COP26 co-hosts were to the fore today , lending their voices to the growing chorus demanding governments deliver explicitly green recovery packages. We will continue to actively advance our sustainability efforts through additional improvements to our products, packaging and operations.".

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

The building is powered by 100% renewable energy through community solar agreements with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, reducing carbon emissions and air pollution as well as the energy demand from the utility grid. The lighting was done with retrofit kits to not disturb ceilings resulting in less material to dispose/recycle.

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Climate Tech VC

JUNE 30, 2023

Investors spent a lot of money in 2021 and 2022. Yet, dollars-and-cents demand from customers for better, faster, cheaper climate technology products only continues to grow—along with the talent flows, regulatory accelerants, and evolving capital stack. Quarterly investment totals dropped to $6.6B

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

Ocean conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage has today published a major new report revealing how 12 companies are responsible for nearly two thirds of all branded packaging pollution across the UK. The annual Citizen Science Brand Audit records the brands of packaging collected as part of the UK's biggest beach clean-up event.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise. Why is this important now? 

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The demand for pre-loved clothing is forecast to grow by between 15-20 per cent per annum over the next?five?years. Yet despite these changes, Hubbub's polling reveals there is still considerable consumer confusion as to what constitutes ‘sustainable fashion', with the focus largely tending to sway towards plastic packaging concerns?rather

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Defra proposals form part of wider package targeting waste from construction, textiles, electronics, cars, furniture, plastics, and food, as Ministers pledge to end the 'throwaway culture as we build back greener'. We are firmly committed to ending the 'throwaway' culture as we build back greener," said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

When the energy price cap lifts in October, bills are expected to rise above £3,200 a year, prompting demands yesterday from MPs for a major national home insulation drive in order to cut demand for expensive gas this winter, although no such measure appears to be in the offing from the government.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Increasingly, investors demand businesses perform well across environmental, social, and governance facets. Yet it’s not just investors that are demanding ESG compliance. Meets investor demand. SDG 13 – climate action : Develop a net zero carbon emissions goal and implementation strategy by 2022.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The winners were chosen for their innovative solutions to the world's most pressing environmental problems and awarded £1m each, alongside a package of professional support to help them scale up and roll out the winning innovations around the world. We need businesses, leaders, innovators, and communities to take action.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

Football fans are being offered airmiles in return for disposing their used plastic bottles at newly-installed recycling pods at Manchester City FC's Etihad Stadium. Etihad Guest Miles can then be used to book flights, package holidays or gifts via the airline and its partners, or be donated to charity. Is this a joke?"

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

CEO insists climate crisis demands more ambitious targets, as he earmarks £1bn of investment to help the supermarket help hit net zero 10 years ahead of the government target. The UK's second largest supermarket chain has unveiled an ambitious new goal to hit net zero emissions by 2040.

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