Episode 299: Climate news from Europe, 2022 wish list continued
GreenBiz
JANUARY 14, 2022
Plus, it's time for plastics and climate activists to get their causes synced up.
Growth in UK plastic packaging recycling being shipped abroad, including to non-OECD countries
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
By Tom McBeth, Policy & Infrastructure Manager with plastics resource efficiency group RECOUP New data reveals an increase in the amount of plastic exported for recycling in 2023, and significant quantities are now going to developing, non-OECD* countries. Of this, more than 25% was sent to Turkey, 25,000 tonnes more than in 2022.
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Guidance document helps understand regulations for Packaging Export Recovery Notes (PERNs) for plastics
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 21, 2022
Baled plastic bottles (image credit: Burke Museum , CC BY-NC 2.0 The Recycling Association has produced guidance on the issuance of Packaging Export Recovery Notes (PERNs) for plastics. This document helps members interpret the regulations for the 2022 accreditation year.
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Start-up provides digital platform for plastic recyclate trading
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 24, 2022
Hamburg-based start-up cirplus has entered into the UK market in a bid to digitalise the plastic and recycling industry. Coming into force on April 1st 2022, the tax increases costs for packaging companies who fail to use recycled materials by 20 to 40 percent. million tons of recycled plastics listed for sale.
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PepsiCo Europe pledges to end use of virgin plastic for crisp packaging by 2030
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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Navigating Europe’s restriction on microplastics
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2024
Legislators in Europe seem to be keeping a closer eye on microplastics, with the introduction of European Union (EU) Regulation 2023/2055 in September being a recent milestone. trillion pieces of plastic, with a further 33 billion pounds of plastic entering every year. [i] It is estimated our oceans contain around 5.25
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First polystyrene recycling plants in Europe will use depolymerisation
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 21, 2021
A significant milestone has been reached with plans to build commercial polystyrene (PS) recycling plants in Europe, according to the firms behind it: INEOS Styrolution, Recycling Technologies and Trinseo. We look forward to working with these two global leading companies to build Europe’s first chemical polystyrene recycling facilities.”
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Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 announced
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. Building & Construction Product: SOLAR HEAT panels from recycled plastic by Montello spa & WET/Ecopixel srl. Plastics Recycling Ambassador: Mik Van Gaever, Fost Plus.
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Episode 299: Climate news from Europe, 2022 wish list continued
AGreenLiving
JANUARY 14, 2022
Plus, it’s time for plastics and climate activists to get their causes synced up. See the original post: Episode 299: Climate news from Europe, 2022 wish list continued.
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Evian debuts 100 per cent recycled plastic bottle
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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PepsiCo to switch to fully recycled plastic bottles across nine European nations
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. Moving to 100 per cent rPET for its manufactuing across key EU markets could eliminate over 70,000 tonnes of virgin, fossil-fuel based plastic per year, the firm estimates.
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EU Digital Product Passports aim to track items through the product life-cycle
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 23, 2023
The unprecedented quantity of Extended Producer Responsibility legislation that has been greenlighted so far this year – across Europe – no doubt signals a new level of environmental awareness on a governmental, rather than merely social level. Green Deal legislation has proven most adaptable to the times.
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PepsiCo to switch to fully recycled plastic bottles across nine EU nations
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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PepsiCo to sell fully recycled plastic bottles across nine EU nations
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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Study: Microplastics found in 90 per cent of leading cosmetics products
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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Energy saving innovations dominate Scottish Environment Business Awards
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.
Unilever unveils 'world's first' paper-based laundry detergent bottle
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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'The world is moving on': Coca-Cola's Therese Noorlander on plastic, packaging, and youth activism
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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China plans to phase out single-use plastics by 2025
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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Sorting technology boosts polymer purity at Viridor’s Avonmouth and Skelmersdale plants
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
The Avonmouth plant, which officially opens on 3rd March 2022, will be the UK’s largest multi-polymer facility. Now we’re not only able to meet current demand for food-grade plastics, but, thanks to the flexibility of the technology, we’re also able to adapt as new requirements for food-grade polymers are introduced.”.
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Unilever puts squeeze on waste footprint with recyclable toothpaste tubes
Business Green
MAY 17, 2021
Traditionally, toothpaste tubes are made from a combination of plastic and aluminium, which makes the packaging difficult to recycle. However, the new tubes replace the aluminium layer with a material made mostly of High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE), which is one of the most widely recyclable plastics globally.
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An ’emerging crisis’: The climate is changing too fast for plants and animals to adapt
Grist
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
White storks migrating to Northern Europe nest up to a week earlier in warm weather, exposing them to extreme storms and threatening the survival of their chicks. The report, Frontiers 2022, comes ahead of the UN Environment Assembly meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, at the end of February. These changes aren’t just about the natural world.
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PVC cables sector has worked to reduce toxic emissions, as sector conference explores
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 7, 2022
If it is true that PVC cables have slightly lost ground in terms of market share in Europe (from 46% to 40% in 2021 compared to 2017), it is also true that volumes remained stable in absolute terms. Modern plastics generally produce the same types and levels of carcinogenic volatile organic carbons (VOCs) as do wood products in fires.
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Commercial-scale facility will recycle all forms of plastic waste
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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'A watershed moment': Kimberly-Clark pledges to halve environmental footprint within 10 years
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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Teddy bears to garden chairs: Hasbro launches UK recycling scheme for toys
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. The firm also began manufacturing toys using plant-based 'bioPET' in 2018.
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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 5, 2023
This reporting was made possible in part due to a media briefing sponsored by Beyond Plastics, Inclusive Louisiana, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and The Descendants Project, which included local meals in Louisiana. Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change.
Fortum launches li-ion recycling hub in Germany
Smart Energy International
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Fortum has launched Fortum Batterie Recycling GmbH in Germany to provide safe and sustainable electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling in central Europe in the hope of bridging the raw materials gap the automotive industry is facing. The mechanical processing enables the recovery of plastics, aluminium, copper and black mass.
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Circular packaging: Good for the planet and for business
Business Green
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
2022 has been a year of economic highs - high commodity prices, record energy prices, and rocketing inflation. River freight routes in Europe drying up during the drought this summer is a stark visual reminder of the fragility of our supply chains and the need to build resilience.
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From bladder-powered energy storage to a green dishwasher called Bob: The best of clean tech at CES 2022
Business Green
JANUARY 11, 2022
One of the more quirky innovations unveiled at CES 2022 was an undersea energy storage system that can soak up excess energy from offshore renewable energy plants using gigantic "bladders" distended across the ocean floor. Bladder-power underwater energy storage.
? $32bn and 30% drop as market hits pause in 2023
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.
Small businesses are key to tackling the climate crisis - but they can't do it alone
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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Finland pilot plant demonstrates production of bioplastic from soy residues
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 25, 2021
Nordic Soya uses soy grown in Europe in its Uusikaupunki plant. An ecological alternative to plastic? The pilot plant will be built during 2021-2022. Soy molasses, which is not suitable for food, has previously been disposed of by incineration. The full-scale plant will be operating by the end of 2023, says VTT.
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This NGO Won a Climate Case Against Shell. Its Next Target? Dutch Bank ING
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 26, 2024
Last October, its CEO called on governments in Europe and Australia to offer greater policy support for greening grids as it seeks to reduce the residential sector emissions from its mortgages. By ING’s own measure, it is responsible for 61 megatonnes of financed emissions in 2022. We will of course respond in court if necessary.”
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Amazon Aware: Retail giant launches sustainable everyday products range
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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Against the grain
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 16, 2023
“It is likely that the majority of microplastics come from the fragmentation of larger pieces of plastic litter in the environment,” says a 2019 report from the Royal Society,1 and the tendency of discarded litter to degrade or fragment is helped along by things like UV radiation, physical erosion and temperature changes.
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Buys Goodwill
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
In Italy, Eni sponsored the 2022 edition of Sanremo, a nationwide Italian music festival broadcast every February to millions of viewers. A century later, we’re working with Texas A&M AgriLife to further explore the peanut's potential This may sound nutty so learn more here: [link] — Chevron (@Chevron) October 19, 2022.
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First polystyrene recycling plant in Europe to open in 2022
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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Refresh, reuse, recycle: How Vodafone is promoting the circular economy
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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'Things need to change': From company fines to wet wipe bans, can Defra's Plan for Water turn Britain's pollution crisis around?
Business Green
APRIL 4, 2023
The strategy also confirms government's plan to move ahead with proposals to ban plastic wet wipes, and restrictions on polyfluoroalkyl substances, sometimes known as "forever chemicals", which are commonly found in firefighting foam, textiles, cleaning products, pains and varnishes. For years a UK ban on plastic wipes has been debated.
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King Charles signals he will step back from 'issues for which I care so deeply'
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
The King has used his voice to draw attention to a wide range of environmental and climate issues for more than five decades, having given a speech warning of the dangers of plastic and chemical pollution as early as 1970 when he was just 21 years old.
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'We have to reinvent almost everything': Meet the company building Europe's first fossil-free, degradable plastics plant
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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Asia is too often overlooked in the alt protein conversation. It’s time to change that
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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Green plastic packaging innovation projects snap up share of UKRI funding
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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