Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

Morrisons has committed to halving its own-brand primary plastic packaging by 2025 and claims to have removed 9,000 tonnes of unnecessary or problematic plastic over the last 12 months alone. The supermarket estimates the move would remove approximately 1.4

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Synthetic fabrics such as polyester – which accounted for 52% of global fiber production in 2018 – take hundreds of years to biodegrade. With this in mind, to support our environment, fashion brands need to use textiles derived from natural fibers such as recycled cotton, organic hemp, and organic linen.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2022

Switching the oil-based plastic sealing on tea bags to biodegradable alternatives, would remove approximately 1.4 The supermarket is aiming to halve the volume of plastic packaging it uses by 2025 and wants all of its own-label products to be recyclable, reusable and compostable by this year.

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Electricity Plastics Carbon-neutral Biodegradable 96

Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Perfume and flavour giant Firmenich has unveiled a flurry of new sustainability goals, yesterday committing to become a "carbon positive" company, recycle 100 per cent of its plastics, and produce 100 per cent renewable fragrances all by the end of the decade.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Biodegradable Plastics 78

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If the trial proves successful, Starbucks is planning to replicate the approach in all 4,000 of its EMEA stores by 2025. "As The lids, which are made by Stora Enso, are plastic-free, recyclable, and biodegradable, and are expected to reduce approximately 120 tonnes of plastic waste annually. "A

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Plastics Carbon-neutral Packaging Recycling 97

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The company intends to transition the products across its cleaning brands - which include Persil, Sunlight, Domestos and Cif - away from chemicals made from fossil fuel feedstocks and replace them with renewable or recycled sources of carbon, such as carbon captured using carbon capture utilisation technology or recovered from waste materials.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Michael Michelsen, business development manager for Paboco, said the organisation's ultimate goal is to create a bottle that is both biodegradable and recyclable. One design uses recycled Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and the other uses bio-based Polyethylene Furanoate. Tradeoffs and revelations. But it is a heavy material.

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Recycling Recycling Packaging Biodegradable 69

Grist

JANUARY 8, 2021

With 11,000 tons of blades expected to be decommissioned across Ireland by 2025, there should be no shortage of material to work with. They are very difficult to move around, and they are not biodegradable,” Bank said. Angela Nagle, a civil engineering Ph.D. It’s like a big, hollow tube that takes up a tremendous amount of space.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

Guy Fennell, cofounder of environmentally friendly baby wipe company Pura, talks to BusinessGreen about his plans to disrupt the wasteful baby care industry with kerbside nappy recycling and plastic-free baby wipes. Guy and Abi Fennell have had a busy year.

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Plastics Sustainability Biodegradable Recycling 78

Grist

APRIL 19, 2023

France already approved such a requirement, effective 2025. The European Commission says it’ll do the same in 2025. California-based companyIntrinsic Advanced Materials sells a pre-treatment, added to fabrics during manufacturing, that it claims helps polyester and nylon biodegrade in seawater within years rather than decades.

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Her remark came moments before the launch of the US Plastics Pact by EMF, The Recycling Partnership and WWF. Chief marketing officers.

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Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 84

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Degradable / Biodegradable. If not, or if the item will ultimately pile up in a landfill, burn in an incinerator or be recycled, then avoid the term and its siblings, such as 'oxo-biodegradable'. Are you telling the customer they're getting something recycled or biodegradable? Recyclable. Recycled content.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Some major corporations are also phasing out plastics, this includes McDonalds, Pepsi and Walmart all of which say their packaging be recyclable or biodegradable by 2025. Scientists in Mexico have created a form of biodegradable plastic made from cactus. South Korea now recycles 95 percent of its food waste TREES 36.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Under the CCC's scenario, meat consumption would fall 10 per cent by 2025, 20 per cent by 2030, and 25 per cent by 2035, by which point lab-grown meat could well be mainstream product. A household recycling rate of 70 per cent should be achieved across the UK by 2030, with food waste cut by 50 per cent. Buildings and heating.

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Carbon Fossil fuels Policy Government 93

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In addition to using sustainable materials such as certified recycled stainless steel and eco-friendly vegan leather, Solios also has a robust Giving Back Program. In an effort to continuously improve, Solios is pledging to become net-zero from both internal and external emissions by 2025.

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Solar Power Recycling Recycling Biodegradable 28

Clean Energy Trust

JULY 1, 2019

Link As the plastic recycling trade has ground to a halt following China’s implementation of higher standards, there has been a spike in interest in bioplastics and new forms of recycling. In Commonwealth Fusion’s case, they are aiming to have a functioning reactor in about 6 years, in 2025.

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Plastics Carbon Blockchain Recycling 40

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Camargo and her partner developed absorbent underwear with natural, biodegradable fabric that maintains functionality for an average of 50 washes, or about two years. For Ghislain Irakoze, it was a startup helping boost electronics waste reuse and recycling in Rwanda. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings. The platforms will be kept afloat by buoys designed to biodegrade once they reach the deep ocean, at which point the kelp will fall to the ocean floor, taking its carbon with it. Nearly 95% of major U.S.

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Climate change Sea level rise 59

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The campus community diverted nearly 70 percent of all waste this past school year (up from 56 percent the previous year), thanks to student-driven recycling audits. This year, it will be offering free reusable menstrual products to the campus community, putting the school on target to meet its 2025 zero-waste goal early.

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Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Waste 52

AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Camargo and her partner developed absorbent underwear with natural, biodegradable fabric that maintains functionality for an average of 50 washes, or about two years. For Ghislain Irakoze, it was a startup helping boost electronics waste reuse and recycling in Rwanda. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health.

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