Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

With less than a year to go until the Plastic Packaging Tax is introduced in the UK, a study by Veolia appears to show that 83% of businesses asked were NOT aware of the tax. The Plastic Packaging Tax is Government policy aiming to directly increase plastic recycling in the UK and cut carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

million, including the help of PRN funding, the UK’s largest producer of damp-proof membranes is increasing its capacity for recycling ethylene-based plastics by 66 per cent. Mercers, which is based in Bolton, transforms plastic packaging waste into 100 per cent recycled damp-proof membrane. Thanks to an injection of £6.1

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

PET plastic bottles collected at a recycling plant. Specialist PET (polyethylene terephthalate) recycler Enviroo has had its planning application approved for its first plastic recycling facility in the UK. million tonnes of plastic waste created in the UK annually. million tonnes of plastic waste created in the UK annually.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 22, 2022

Greentown Go alum Epoch Biodesign raised an $11M seed round led by Lower Carbon Capital for its novel plastic-transforming enzymes. Verne received seed investments from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund—a Greentown partner—Collaborative Fund, and Caterpillar Venture Capital Inc. Salient Predictions raised a $5.4M Deployments + Partnerships.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Peak Power received a $765K investment from Natural Resources Canada’s Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program to install 117 V1G chargers —and is partnering with fellow Greentown member SWTCH Energy on the installations. Salient was a winner of the 2022 Zurich Innovation Championship’s sustainability category.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

investment in its vegetation intelligence platform that helps utilities reduce the risk of power outages and wildfires. Applied Bioplastics received an investment from 4WARD.VC that will advance itssustainable, plant-based plastic alternatives. Overstory announced a $5.2M Partnerships + Deployments.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There is a bottleneck in the UK’s recycling infrastructure for plastic recycling, according to the latest report from plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP. The 2022 UK Plastic Packaging Sorting & Reprocessing Infrastructure report found a shortfall in the required capacity at reprocessing facilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Essex-based waste management and recycling solutions provider, Green Recycling, has achieved its goal of becoming the UK’s first picker-less C&I MRF with the help of a sensor-based sorting system able to identify the weight and quantity of plastics, one of a number of features enabled by AI.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Lego, the world's largest toy manufacturer, has built a reputation not only for the durability of its bricks, designed to last for decades, but also for its substantial investment in sustainability. billion to reduce carbon emissions by 2025, despite netting annual profits of just over $2 billion in 2022. The company has pledged US$1.4

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But CEO Mark Schneider took pains to position this investment as one that will be "earnings-neutral.". Nestlé will discuss its climate-related progress and investments on an ongoing basis, with the long-term view in mind. A pledge to pay more for recycled "food grade" plastic in order to help stimulate demand. (It Media Source.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

In 2022 and beyond, the rise of activist investing will empower everyday consumers to call for change - and businesses need to be read, writes Tulipshare CEO Antoine Argouges. In 2022, it is expected that 148 companies will be targeted by activist investors - a 10 per cent increase from last year. Change is coming.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

We've been meticulously tracking climate tech investment, deal by deal, since the term ‘climate tech’ emerged. In 2023, a challenging macro environment marked by higher interest rates and a cautious private investment market raised the hurdles for deployment.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Avonmouth facility capable of processing 80,000 tonnes of plastic every year while generating electricity from 320,000 tonnes of waste. Co-locating two such facilities in the same building marks a UK-first, and will help to drive up the amount of plastics recycled at the plant, according to the waste and recycling firm.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

From finding clever ways to participate in the circular economy, to innovating new products and materials that don't actively contribute to planetary destruction, brands that are proving to consumers that they are seriously invested in the future of the planet are set to win over the next few years.

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Front And Centered

JULY 14, 2022

Without further ado, meet our 2022 Fellows: Shamso Issak, Living Well Kent Collaborative Shamso Issak is the executive director of Living Well Kent Collaborative. The post Meet Our 2022 Frontline Fellows<br>and Support Their Work! All contributions made by September 30 will go to the first round of funding for our fellows.

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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. 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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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

More than 300 organisations in 80 countries from across the non-profit, investment, corporate, academic, community, and government sectors have been hand-picked as 'nominators' for this year's prize, the organisers said. These nominators have until 4 March to submit entries to the prize.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies. It’s pretty disheartening.”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

More electric vehicles and low-carbon heating, as well as moves to slash plastic use, will further reduce the need for oil and gas, with the sector also hit by a coronavirus demand cut, leading to a prediction that 30,000 of those workers in the UK could lose their jobs by 2022.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Marine pollution has deservedly gained greater attention in recent years, most notably through the vexing—and highly visible—issue of plastics. Synthetic chemicals, many hazardous and harmful, are now ubiquitous across the seas—much like plastics—and left untackled, this assault will only get worse.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Experts have collaborated on a series of recommendations which calls on Government to take the initiative on finding solutions to the plastics problem. Speaking at the launch, Baroness Meacher said: “Plastics are an important resource that we cannot simply dispense with, but we must address the effects of plastic pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Independent agency M&C Saatchi won an award for its plastic pollution awareness campaign The Plastic Forecast , made for Australian philanthropic organisation the Minderoo Foundation, which visualises the weight of microplastics falling from the sky in raindrops on a given day. based investigative newsroom The Intercept.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

particulate matter in line with WHO guidelines, but the bill itself includes only a commitment to set a target before 31 October 2022. Plastic waste ban: A red herring? There are already strict rules in place on recycled plastic exports via the Basel Convention and the rules that the countries importing the plastics have introduced.”

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Set to be finalized in early 2022, the GBF’s draft sets out targets for protecting marine and land habitats, reducing pesticides and plastic waste, and increasing investments. More: The UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework could be ‘Paris Agreement for nature’.

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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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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.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 10, 2023

Not So Fast (Fashion)- Resale Continues to Rise Our Investment in Beni Whether you try and keep up with the latest fashion trends, or your kids do, there’s no denying the prevalence of fast fashion. ThredUp Annual Resale Report, 2022 Hence our newest investment in Beni , a data-driven approach to the online re-commerce market.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The parent company behind Weetabix has announced that 99 per cent of its packaging will be widely recyclable by next summer, while it works towards reaching a 100 per cent target ahead of the 2025 deadline proposed by the UK Plastics Pact.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The bonds will also be used to fund a number of food waste reduction projects, including the deployment of measurement technologies and systems, and other waste reduction projects such as measures to tackle plastic waste and promote reusable items.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The collaboration, which was announced late last week, includes an undisclosed level of investment to support wine producers keen to adopt regenerative viticulture practices focused on boosting soil health, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration, according to the firm. The partnership follows the launch of Berry Bros.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

In a 2022 paper published in Nature Scientific Reports , Ciniro Costa, Jr., 2022), with approximately 1.3 Reducing food waste in high-income countries is largely a voluntary act for the consumer, with very few waste-reduction enforcement policies in place (Stancu and Lähteenmäki, 2022). Source: Qin and Horvath, 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

We need consumers to bring vapes and batteries back to designated return points so they can be safely treated and recycled to preserve the valuable lithium and plastic for new items. To increase this, we need to build a stronger policy and legislation position to encourage eco design and new recycling investment – and fast.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2023

A letter sent this morning to the boards of more than 15,000 companies around the world emphasises the need for the business community to disclose their exposure to climate, deforestation, water security, biodiversity, and - for the first time this year - plastic related risks through the CDP's annual questionnaire.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

And, in related industry news, Virgin Group announced this week it has formed a strategic partnership with chemical conversion technology company Agilyx with a view to developing factories to produce lower carbon fuels from plastic waste, in a bid to both drive down plastic pollution and carbon emissions.

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