Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Under the terms of the plan, all local authorities will be required – by 31 March 2026 – to collect a defined set of recyclable waste streams: glass; metal; plastic; paper and card; food waste; and garden waste. An additional stream – plastic film – will also become mandatory from 31 March 2027.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

UK-based Mura Technology announces major backing from global chemicals giant to help it develop host of innovative US and European plastic recycling facilities. We are excited to move forward with the creation of a series of financeable HydroPRS plants in Europe and the US that will accelerate a circular plastics economy," he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Project to create recyclable Heinz Beanz Snap Pots will help put 22 tonnes of plastic back into the circular economy. Fully recyclable Heinz Beanz Snap Pots will soon hit shelves as part of a pioneering trial by the food giant and supermarket Tesco designed to make it easier to process previously hard to recycling plastics.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

The flow of plastic into the environment must be stopped before it’s too late, and a legally-binding global UN treaty backed by business is key to making this happen, writes Unilever's Richard Slater. Consumer goods companies - including Unilever - are big users of plastic. The problem is actually getting worse.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

Elsewhere, tax tweaks have also been targeted at building a more circular economy in the UK, with a new plastics packaging tax coming into force today. They have also warned it could result in plastic waste being exported, given that packaging intended for export within 12 months is exempted from the levy.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2021

Earlier this month, McDonald’s became the latest major food company to announce a commitment to remove all added fluorinated chemicals from its food packaging that is served to customers. Consumers are hyper-aware of exposure to unsafe chemicals, especially when it comes to their food, and are demanding companies take action.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. For companies with sustainable packaging goals, 2025 is fast approaching. That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. Meg Wilcox. Mon, 01/04/2021 - 01:15. We’re booming." .

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package Fossil-based plastic production is still growing exponentially. Only 9% of all plastic is recycled and it can take hundreds of years to degrade. Recycling is critical, but the world cannot rely on that alone.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 29, 2021

This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm Deonna Anderson Fri, 01/29/2021 – 00:30 In Manteca, California, a small company is pioneering the creation and production of paper bottles for brands such as L’Oreal and Seventh Generation. Across the U.S. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. recycling system had been a mess for far longer — seeing as the country never fully developed the infrastructure to recycle anywhere near the amount of plastic waste it produces. Plastics Pact. 2025 isn’t too far off, so the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The bar will be packaged in 100 per cent plant-based ISCC certified bio-sourced plastic wrapping and will be sold at a retail price of £2.50 The confectionary giant confirmed the bar will be available in two flavours, Smooth Chocolate and Smooth Chocolate with Salted Caramel pieces, and has been registered by the Vegan Society.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

This supports a circular economic model whereby fewer resources are demanded reducing water demand. Tip #5: Switch to sustainable shipping and packaging. To ensure all aspects of your brand is sustainable, switch to biodegradable packagings like paper, cellulose, hemp, and other plant materials.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2021

How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025. Plastic-free by 2025. It is our intention to hold everyone to the zero-plastic commitment," Stuart Landesberg, Grove founder and CEO, told GreenBiz during a recent conversation. "If Grove is plastic neutral. Deonna Anderson.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging. Sustainable packaging is a keystone issue for corporate sustainability. As one of the first environmental concerns companies began to tackle proactively, interest and efforts had notable resurgence in the last few years, partly spurred by the attention on ocean plastic. . Cheryl Baldwin.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

. · Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. HydroPRS (Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling Solution) is described as a revolutionary advanced recycling process designed to tackle plastic that cannot currently be recycled. tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world.[iv]

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The programme, launched in 2013, was designed to drive a more circular economy and encourage reuse and repair across a number of priority areas, including food, textiles, plastics, electricals, chemicals, healthcare, and the built environment.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

But it struck me that Earth Day 2024 has a particularly timely theme: Planet vs. Plastics. The official Earth Day organization has been assigning yearly themes since at least 1980, and Planet vs. Plastics is hitting in the year when U.N. members are supposed to be finalizing a global treaty to address plastic pollution.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

A raft of corporate green packaging goals are looming - how can they be met? If global plastics production continues under business as usual, the world will mismanage 7.7 gigatons of plastics over the next 20 years, according to new research from Google. Packaging goals need to move into action.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Here’s how: Firstly, having more renewable energy sources can increase the demand for green energy. As more eco-invested consumers choose green power, it increases the demand for renewable energy sources. As noted, the utilities industry is shifting to more sustainable practices. Cisco enables utility customers’ sustainability goals.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The programme, launched in 2013, was designed to drive a more circular economy and encourage reuse and repair across a number of priority areas, including food, textiles, plastics, electricals, chemicals, healthcare, and the built environment.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics. 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. Elsa Wenzel. Wed, 08/26/2020 - 02:01. Picture a double bag in 30 years.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Now, in its eventual internal-combustion phaseout, GM can’t seem to make EVs fast enough, and 30 new models are lined up for the market for 2025. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As you start to take plastic away you can incorporate other materials which also have a high calorific value, but their combustion will produce different by-products. Pollutants and plastic. Burning a higher proportion of plastics produces more HCL and less SO2. Stricter emissions limits.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Reflecting on the climate crisis, the devastating rates of bio-diversity loss and the suffocating flow of plastics into the ocean, I feel a sense of overwhelm. August 22nd marked World Overshoot Day, a stark reminder that we are consuming nature at a rate which is too fast for our planet to regenerate.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Despite some setbacks posed by the pandemic (including misinformation about the safety of reusables peddled by industry lobbying groups), the transition from single-use to reusable packaging is building real momentum. It’s (still) all about plastic. While source reduction continues to be the No. Subscribe here. Circular Economy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

New Plastics Economy progress report from Ellen MacArthur Foundation warns increasing use of recycled plastic is being undermined by lack of investment in supporting infrastructure. The report does stress that encouraging progress is being made on a number of fronts. The share of post-consumer recycled content has risen from 4.8

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2023

This year's focus on plastics - reducing plastic pollution, limiting waste and moving towards a circular economy - resonates with all of us at Vodafone UK. We extended our range earlier in the year to meet growing demand. We'd love to see others follow our lead.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

But several major new reports in recent days have stressed that longer-term policy stability, incentive programmes, and reforms crafted and enacted by the UK government over the coming weeks and months could prove just as important - if not more important - to the country reaching its 2050 climate goal that the much-debated stimulus packages.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Agreement will see recycling firm Viridor supply consumer goods giant with recycled plastic for use in its packaging. Proctor & Gamble has signed a five-year plastic supply contract with UK recycling firm Viridor as part of the consumer goods giant's drive to increase the proportion of recycled plastic in its packaging.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Partner Content: Dow's Daniella Souza Miranda explains how designing for recyclability, reusing and repurposing can ensure plastic retains its value and helps contribute to a circular economy. Yes, the demand for a circular economy in the plastics industry is real. This goal is tough, but achievable.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Single-use plastics are helping keep people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic, but creating new challenges for governments in dealing with the waste problem. Some of the world's largest corporations promised to quickly slash their use of virgin plastic packaging. It seems an impossible situation. Headwinds and tailwinds.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Partner Content: Dow's Daniella Souza Miranda explains how designing for recyclability, reusing and repurposing can ensure plastic retains its value and helps contribute to a circular economy. Yes, the demand for a circular economy in the plastics industry is real. This goal is tough, but achievable.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Do we use plastic bottles for water? Products & Packaging : Do our products use sustainably sourced and eco-friendly materials? Is our packaging also safe for people and the planet? For instance, don’t say “ to reduce the impact of our packaging on the environment ”, but instead highlight the details.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With countries set to discuss potential blueprint for a Paris Agreement-style treaty for tackling plastic waste this week, leading experts give their views on what it should look like. So could such a treaty ever work in the same way for another, interconnected, cross-border environmental crisis facing the planet: plastic pollution?

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

CEO insists climate crisis demands more ambitious targets, as he earmarks £1bn of investment to help the supermarket help hit net zero 10 years ahead of the government target. The UK's second largest supermarket chain has unveiled an ambitious new goal to hit net zero emissions by 2040.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Supermarket ranked top in a Greenpeace report evaluating progress made by UK supermarkets in slashing plastic use. Waitrose first launched a refillable range in some of its shops in 2019 under the 'Waitrose Unpacked' banner, an initiative intended to test demand from consumers for packaging-free shopping.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Telecommunications giant intends to slash its absolute emissions by 25 per cent by 2025. To meet its 2025 zero waste goal, Virgin Media said it would ensure 95 per cent of all operational waste and all returned customer equipment and mobile handsets is recycled and reused.

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