Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Coca-Cola Company has today unveiled a new reusable packaging target, announcing that it is aiming for at last a quarter of all beverages sold across its portfolio of brands to be sold in refillable and returnable bottles or refillable containers by 2030. Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As part of the program, the home furnishings company, widely known for its flat-pack packaging and ready-to-assemble furniture, will be taking back a range of IKEA products: bookcases and shelf units; small tables; chairs and stools without upholstery; and chests of drawers. trillion in 2022 from $3.53

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

The firm says the facility will be able to re-use 100% of the PET it takes in and help recycle some of the 4.9 million tonnes of plastic waste created in the UK annually. This will become increasingly important from this time next year, when a new la­w will see any packaging that contains less than 30% recycled PET taxed.

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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.

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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. Their efforts so far mean 100% of their US electricity needs are met with renewable energy and 87% of their production line uses recycled materials.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

PepsiCo has pledged to stop selling beverage bottles made from virgin plastic across nine European countries by 2022, with the shift to recycled materials for its bottles expected to slash carbon emissions by 40 per cent compared to non-recycled bottles, the company announced yesterday.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” The designation indicates that 100 percent of the waste stream at the facility is reused, recycled or incinerated for energy.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

Leading brand launches new effort to recycle flexible film packaging. A new frontier in plastic packaging recycling was opened this week, as Cathedral City announced a scheme to recycle flexible film cheese packaging.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

PepsiCo has pledged to stop selling beverage bottles made from virgin plastic across nine EU countries by 2022, with the shift to recycled materials for its bottles expected to slash carbon emissions by 40 per cent compared non-recycled bottles, it announced yesterday.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The Sciences Advances article draws on more than 1,500 “ brand audits ” coordinated between 2018 and 2022 by Break Free From Plastic, a coalition of more than 3,000 environmental organizations. million pieces of plastic waste and counted the number of items contributed by specific companies.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

PepsiCo has pledged to stop selling beverage bottles made from virgin plastic across nine EU countries by 2022, with the shift to recycled materials for its bottles expected to slash carbon emissions by 40 per cent compared non-recycled bottles, it announced yesterday.

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as promising as chemical recycling and next-generation plastics may sound, experts also say some of the most realistic solutions to plastic pollution involve eliminating it from packaging as much as possible. Should packaging all be the same color of plastic to avoid dye-based contamination in recycling processes?

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

It said it would do this by stepping up its use of recycled materials, refurbishing and reselling used appliances, offering a free packaging recycling service to customers, and reducing the volume of waste going from its global manufacturing sites to landfill to zero by 2022.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

As part of the program, the home furnishings company, widely known for its flat-pack packaging and ready-to-assemble furniture, will be taking back a range of IKEA products: bookcases and shelf units; small tables; chairs and stools without upholstery; and chests of drawers. But getting there is a long journey.".

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 30, 2021

Related: 4ocean and Poralu Marine present BeBot, the beach cleaning robot The English government has a firmer plan for a plastic packaging tax, which will go into effect in April 2022. Companies that use plastic with less than 30% recycled content will have to pay a tax of £200 per ton of plastic.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In the short term, more immediate goals that will stair step to the larger achievement include earning zero waste to landfill certification in 2022, setting a 2025 deadline to be plastic-free in all packaging and incorporating recyclable or renewable materials into products.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As part of the program, the home furnishings company, widely known for its flat-pack packaging and ready-to-assemble furniture, will be taking back a range of IKEA products: bookcases and shelf units; small tables; chairs and stools without upholstery; and chests of drawers. trillion in 2022 from $3.53

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Forty-five per cent of Americans want to be viewed as eco-friendly consumers, according to the results in September of an unpublished 2022 Eco Pulse study from Shelton Group. "In Will the product and its package break down completely and 'return to nature' within a year? Less waste than / Less toxic than. Recycled content.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Packaging giant hopes that its new principles will cut waste, boost the amount of reyclable packaging materials on the market and address a widespread confusion among consumers over what types of packaging are recyclable.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

Aldi has committed to halve the volume of plastic packaging it uses in the UK by 2025, a move it estimates will prevent 74,000 tonnes of plastic packaging from reaching supermarket shelves. All remaining plastic packaging will be recyclable and made of recycled material "wherever possible", the company said.

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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. We are on the right path to make polystyrene a circular material.".

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Grist

APRIL 10, 2024

This note from Brian Hart has particularly stayed with me: “I would first point out that those of us who were forming households in the late ’60s and early ’70s, were building with tons of recycled materials. Some Grist-y swag, and a book of your choice lovingly packaged and mailed to you by Claire.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

These garments are created without consideration for the environment, waste, and human labor. days and wears the item 36% less over its lifecycle, generating 82 pounds of textile waste each year. Waste Considerations . Hold trainings on ways to reduce mistakes and fabric waste. Discover ways to repurpose fabric waste.

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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. The policy is based on evidence of what works to drive up recycling rates. "It

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Thermomechanical recycling is not recycling,” said Alain Marty, chief science officer at Carbios, a French company that is developing alternatives to conventional recycling. “At billion tons of plastic.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

Speaking to BusinessGreen , Davis argues that proactively changing consumer mindsets in support of refillable packaging and recycled materials is "key" to the retailer unlocking the next phase of sustainability improvements. "If Just three per cent of those quizzed stated that they "never" use single use plastic.

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