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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Evian water has today unveiled a new recycled plastic bottle in partnership with clean technology company Loop, marking a major step towards its goal of using 100 per cent recycled plastic in all its plastic bottles by 2025. litre bottle but holds nearly three times the volume.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Reusable packaging can reduce companies’ reliance on risky supply chains and fluctuating commodity prices, writes Corplex’s Lucas van der Shalk. 2022 has been a year of economic highs - high commodity prices, record energy prices, and rocketing inflation. The more times packaging is reused, the lower carbon it gets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We are committed to immediate action to address the plastic waste challenge.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We are committed to immediate action to address the plastic waste challenge.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Firm intends to roll out paper bottles for its Omo brand in early 2022 in bid to cut down on plastic. Unilever has announced plans to launch the "first ever" paper-based laundry detergent bottle using cutting-edge technology that has the potential to significantly reduce the use of plastic in household products.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

Consumer goods giants continue to face growing scrutiny over their reliance on plastics in their packaging, with fresh research published yesterday having found microplastics in products manufactured by almost 90 per cent of the top-selling cosmetics brands. What we do know is that these products, used day-in day-out, contain plastic.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The winners of the 2022 VIBES – Scottish Environment Business Awards are: Adapting Scotland Award – Highlands Rewilding Ltd, based in Drumnodrochit, aims to help rewild, re-people and upskill the Scottish Highlands. It has also achieved significant reductions in water use and plastic waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Avonmouth plant, which officially opens on 3rd March 2022, will be the UK’s largest multi-polymer facility. The infeed material at Avonmouth comprises UK-sourced post-consumer packaging. 15 TOMRA AUTOSORT® units pre-sort the material then six AUTOSORT® FLAKE units are used for flake sorting.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

Maker of Signal, Pepsodent, and Closeup announces plan to switch to recyclable packaging by 2025. Traditionally, toothpaste tubes are made from a combination of plastic and aluminium, which makes the packaging difficult to recycle. As such, the new tubes can be recycled within standard recycling streams, Unilever said.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

billion denizens, China also produces the largest quantity of plastic. In fact, the University of Oxford-based publication Our World In Data (OWID) has documented China’s plastic production rate at 60 million tons per year. Three avenues are currently available for plastic waste disposal: recycling , incinerating or discarding.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Kimberly-Clark said its new targets would see it cut its carbon, forest, and water footprint, as well as its use of virgin fossil fuel based plastics by 50 per cent within 10 years. This plan for 2030 is our most ambitious yet," said Tristram Wilkinson, President for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Kimberly-Clark. "We

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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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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

The partnership builds on a suite of sustainability initiatives from the toy giant, which began a staged phase out of plastic from its product packaging this year in pursuit of its goal to eliminate "virtually all plastic" from new products by 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Nordic Soya uses soy grown in Europe in its Uusikaupunki plant. An ecological alternative to plastic? Also known for its medical applications, bioplastic is also ideal for, e.g., the manufacture of various compostable packaging applications and 3D-printing filaments. The pilot plant will be built during 2021-2022.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But among the speeches, panels and discussions, there is one stakeholder we should have heard more from: Europe's small businesses. Small and medium businesses generate 63 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions from business in Europe, according to the European Commission. We stay away from plastic as much as possible," she says.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

The new line of products - initially launching today for customers in the US, Canada, and Europe - is being given its own brand store on the online retail giant's website, the company said. Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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? The first is reduce plastic use.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Research agency unveils winners of sustainable packaging competition, which it says aim to 'alter the UK's relationship with plastic'. A flurry of green packaging innovations and plastic waste management projects have won a share of £30m from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

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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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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Amid growing concerns about the environmental impact of single-use plastics, consumers have increasingly sought out alternatives made with renewable materials—as demonstrated by the rise in popularity of the paper straw. In a 2022 survey of U.S. In a 2022 survey of U.S. A Deeper Dive into the Updates 1.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2023

This year's focus on plastics - reducing plastic pollution, limiting waste and moving towards a circular economy - resonates with all of us at Vodafone UK. For example, in November 2022 , Vodafone and WWF formed a three-year global strategic partnership, kicking off with an initial ‘one million phones for the planet' campaign.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sonalie Figueiras is the f ounder & editor in chief of Green Queen Media and founder of sustainable packaging and plastic reduction marketplace Source Green. It’s true that plant-based meat sales are flat in the US, UK and some of Europe. Consumers are buying the products once and not coming back.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified. Company profile.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A new partnership between UK Recycling Technologies and leading polystyrene manufacturer is set to see the difficult to dispose plastic made recyclable. The move is part of a wider crackdown on plastic waste that is set to see manufacturers face new taxes for plastic materials that do not feature a minimum level of recycled material.

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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. Most paper used in Europe is currently sourced from within the EU. But paper packaging is not a sustainable alternative.” “If

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Dutch firm Avantium manufactures plant-based plastics from fructose, and is also exploring captured CO2 as a future feedstock for fossil-free materials. Plastics are everywhere, and the problems they pose are well documented. Plastics are now in our food, our drink, the air we breathe, and almost every product we buy.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By 2022, the EU had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 34% compared to 1990 levels, with an increase in GDP of 54%. Founded in 2000, Ecocem has four manufacturing facilities across Western Europe, selling into several major international markets including France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, the UK, etc.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2021

Dow's Marco ten Bruggencate provides a glimpse into its new partnership with Mura Technology though which it is developing a new advanced recycling solution for plastics. Only nine per cent of plastic ever made has been recycled globally, and almost 80 per cent of plastic ends up in landfill or our environment.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Public focus on the issue has only increased following the European Commission's proposals for a revision of its packaging and packaging waste legislation in November 2022.  . The proposal states that packaging (all materials) entering the EU market must meet design for recyclability criteria.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Eco friendly retail packaging guide. In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. Retail packaging defined: The impact of packaging waste and the rise of the ethical consumer.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The campaign, titled 'Nothing tastes better than a 100 per cent recycled bottle', showcases the company's new 500ml and 600ml bottles, which are now made from fully recycled plastic. The move follows the decision earlier this year to transition 7UP bottles from green to clear plastic to better enable recycling.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

New SIM card produced using recycled plastic to be made available across Europe from this month. Vodafone is introducing Eco-SIM cards made from recycled plastic across its European markets, as part of the company's commitment to reduce its environmental impact. The new cards will be available in the UK from 1 April 2022.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

The vice-president of sustainability at CCEP, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world, spills the details on how the firm intends to achieve net zero packaging, manufacturing, shipping, and ingredients within 20 years. Europe is kind of the epicentre of what's going on climate change," he says. "If

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starbucks has this week launched a major new trial that could see it offer returnable, reusable cups at over 4,000 stores across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The lids, which are made by Stora Enso, are plastic-free, recyclable, and biodegradable, and are expected to reduce approximately 120 tonnes of plastic waste annually.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Plastic inhabits the oceans, building up in the guts of seagulls and great white sharks. At the end,” he added, “you have exactly the same quantity of plastic waste.”.

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