Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Year-on-year, despite increases in material being recycled in the UK, quantities of plastic waste exported for recycling from England have increased by more than 10% to just over 600,000 tonnes. Of this, more than 25% was sent to Turkey, 25,000 tonnes more than in 2022.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Here are a few of IKEA’s other recent waste reduction and circular economy efforts: The retailer plans to remove all non-rechargeable alkaline batteries from its global home furnishing offerings by October 2021. And that [with] everything we're utilizing in a store, there is no waste going to landfill," Keesson said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

A trade association representing petroleum companies and a controversy-ridden waste management firm are sponsoring dinners at this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference, DeSmog can reveal. Veolia is a French company that operates in 58 countries worldwide, primarily in the water, waste, and energy sectors.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 89

Charged

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lithion says its first commercial and mechanical separation plant in Quebec will produce more than 7,500 metric tons per year of recycled material. After that, Lithion says IS Dongseo plans to open a hydrometallurgy plant projected to supply over 15,000 tons of battery-grade materials per year.

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Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. During 2022, we expect efforts like these to continue to grow among businesses.

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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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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

AUGUST 18, 2021

Sitting alongside the Government’s Resources and Waste Strategy, in 2018 the Treasury first announced the tax on plastics and in April 2022 the Plastic Packaging Tax will be introduced in the UK. We must continue to work together to drive investment to overcome these challenges and act more sustainably.”.

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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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Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 76

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

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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Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 49

Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

Plastic from these sites is sent to recycling innovator TerraCycle, where it will be converted into a new resuable raw material that can be transformed into durable products, such as outdoor furniture or waste bins. Without a standard recycling solution in the industry, consumers are unsure what they can recycle and where.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Packaging 83

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The world's largest plastic packaging producer said the goal was "industry leading" and in line with its wider commitments to tackling its plastic footprint, including pledges to make all its primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and ensure half its packaging is made from recycled materials by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

billion tonnes of waste is dumped globally, with devastating effects on our air, oceans and soil. Governments are increasing pressure to reduce reliance on single-use materials and increase recycled content. In its first use case, by increasing picker performance, Sorted has improved residual waste recovery by over 50%.

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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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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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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.” “That’s the one material that we have not found the perfect solution for at this point, whether it be at a plant or at your home,” he said.

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Packaging Waste Waste Recycling 28

Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Here are a few of IKEA's other recent waste reduction and circular economy efforts: The retailer plans to remove all non-rechargeable alkaline batteries from its global home furnishing offerings by October 2021. And that [with] everything we're utilizing in a store, there is no waste going to landfill," Keesson said.

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Washington state’s wakeup call came about five years ago when China stopped accepting highly contaminated bales of recycled materials from around the world. Washington lawmakers, responding to the loss of a market that took upwards of 60 percent of the state’s recycled materials, created the Recycling Development Center in 2019.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

The Textiles 2030 scheme, launched this week by waste charity WRAP, commits the fashion retailers to halving their carbon emissions by the end of the decade and reducing the aggregate water footprint of their products by 30 per cent.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The goals mark a major milestone for the fashion retailer, which has previously faced accusations that its low-cost clothing helps fuel a throwaway, fast-fashion culture that drives up the amount of textile waste going to landfill.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The goals mark a major milestone for the fashion retailer, which has previously faced accusations that its low-cost clothing helps fuel a throwaway, fast-fashion culture that drives up the amount of textile waste going to landfill.

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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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Plastics Recycled materials Recycling Recycling 28

Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Costa Rica was not the only place to emerge victorious, with the City of Milan in Italy claiming victory in the Waste free World category for its Food Waste Hubs programme, which launched in 2019 and distributes food from supermarkets and offices to citizens in need.

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Waste Waste Innovation Recycled materials 36

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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Retail Carbon-neutral Recycled materials Recycling 28

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Here are a few of IKEA’s other recent waste reduction and circular economy efforts: The retailer plans to remove all non-rechargeable alkaline batteries from its global home furnishing offerings by October 2021. And that [with] everything we’re utilizing in a store, there is no waste going to landfill,” Keesson said.

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Sustainability Recycling Recycling Retail 28

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. million tonnes between 2022 and 2032. The report is the first of its kind.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030. The reason to start recycling in Norway is due to the fact that the country remains years ahead of others in terms of EV adoption, which also means that she will be the first country to experience significant volumes of EV batteries reaching end-of-life.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030. The reason to start recycling in Norway is due to the fact that the country remains years ahead of others in terms of EV adoption, which also means that she will be the first country to experience significant volumes of EV batteries reaching end-of-life.

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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

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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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 Less waste than / Less toxic than. Recycled content. Less than what? Made with renewable energy.

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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. The firm is aiming to get at least 500 of the world's Fortune 2000 companies to use the tool by 2022.

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Waste 69

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. The topic seemed to hit home — this newsletter holds the record for most reader replies!

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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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