Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP has published its 2022 UK Plastic Packaging Sorting & Reprocessing Infrastructure report, which reported that there is a clear bottleneck in the UK’s recycling infrastructure for plastic recycling.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

At VERGE 2022, the U.S. Plastics Pact and Walmart announced the winners of the first Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award, showing exciting innovations in the areas of recyclability, compostability, refill and reuse.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Food companies have a dual responsibility when it comes to waste reduction aspirations: optimizing their operations to minimize food waste while reducing the amount of other materials — especially the waste associated with packaging — sent to landfill.

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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. million tons of recycled plastics listed for sale.

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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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Green Living Guy

MAY 3, 2022

Washington, DC, May 2, 2022 Greenpeace on Friday submitted its opposition to the motion filed by Walmart to dismiss its lawsuit. Walmart is labeling private label throwaway plastic products and packaging as “recyclable” without any substantiation to support that claim. The lawsuit was originally filed […].

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

However, the most important one is waste management and recycling. Recycling Is Good for the Environment. As per OECD, 22% of plastic waste is mismanaged, and only 9% is recycled globally. Recycling is good for the environment because it reduces the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. billion metric tons by 2050.

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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. 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

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

UK-based cereals company is set to reach 100 per cent recyclable packaging well ahead of 2025 deadline. Ultimately, all our packaging decisions are based on whether they reduce our overall carbon footprint," said John Petre, head of Supply Chain and Technical at Weetabix Food Company.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The chemicals, called phthalates, are typically added to plastics like food packaging, shopping bags, and shower curtains to make them more flexible. Less than 10 percent of plastics are recycled worldwide, and some evidence suggests that recycling may actually increase their toxicity.

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

A new adhesive derived from materials including food waste should enable 90 percent of engineered wood products, such as furniture and construction boards, to become fully recyclable and help to develop a circular economy in this sector, says the firm marketing it. Globally, the value of the urea-formaldehyde market is £9.5

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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 UK currently relies heavily on these to achieve its recycling targets.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But some companies are setting a trend for aiming to become net zero by the end of 2022. Crystal Doors were named Manufacturer Of The Year at the 2021 Business Green Leaders Award and Small Business of the Year at the Sustainability Leaders Awards 2021 due to their dedication to being net zero by 2022. Coffee and TV.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” “In the last three years of reporting, the UK Plastics Pact has doubled the recycled content in packaging, and driven the significant elimination of unnecessary (84%) and hard to recycle (90%) components in packaging. Accelerating action by businesses is paramount.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

In response to the announcement, Rick Hindley, executive director at aluminium packaging recycling group Alupro, offered his views: “For some considerable time, the Scottish Government has been considering plans for the introduction of a national DRS. There is much to consider if the Scottish DRS is to be a success.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Viridor says its soon-to-be-opened Avonmouth plastics recycling plant will reprocess over 80,0000 tonnes of plastic, creating recycled raw material ready to be returned to the economy. The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero.

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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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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2023

Over the past six months, the Greentown Go Make 2022 cohort of five climatetech startups has been working closely with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) (“MCA”) and the M-Lab Companies to accelerate partnerships to deploy and commercialize supply-chain-decarbonization solutions. The startup is based in Waterloo, ON, Canada.

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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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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

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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The potential yearly cost of collecting and recycling these vapes – according to the same research – now stands at £200 million which currently isn’t being paid for by vape producers, importers and retailers. It also explored the preferred recycling solutions for vapes.

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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 need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

Maker of Signal, Pepsodent, and Closeup announces plan to switch to recyclable packaging by 2025. Unilever's oral care brands, including Signal, Pepsodent and Closeup, have today announced plans to convert their entire global toothpaste portfolio to recyclable tubes by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The ban applies to the following single-use categories: Plates, bowls and trays unless you are supplying them to another business or the items are packaging (pre-filled or filled at the point of sale). All of these have the ‘polluter pays’ concept at their core but is it enough?

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

New partnership between Evian and Loop aims to rollout 100 per cent recycled PET water bottles from early next year. 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.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2023

Greentown Go Move 2022 brought BASF and Magna together with five climatetech startups to advance solutions that decarbonize the automotive industry’s life-cycle impact. BASF, the Leading Partner on Go Move 2022, is a global leader in chemicals and the number one chemical supplier to the automotive industry.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

European legislative bodies have mobilized themselves en masse since March 2022, which is when several proposals aimed at product sustainability saw the light of day, most notably a circular economy business model. Traceability systems are to be in place to enable tracking all procedures leading from raw materials to the finished product.

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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 need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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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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Charged

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The company’s new range of Li-ion batteries features a modular design to optimize performance and packaging, and has been engineered with lifecycle sustainability in mind, including reuse and recycling at the end of life. Caterpillar will showcase prototypes of its battery technologies at the upcoming bauma 2022 trade show in Munich.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

The proposed ban forms part of a wider package of policies that are set to be delivered following the passage of the government's Environment Bill later this autumn.

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