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

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Kraft Heinz also updated its commitments with new targets pegged to 2025. Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Tip #2: Reduce textile waste. The fashion industry produces 92 million tons of textile waste annually. And the fast fashion industry is a major contributor to this waste problem, as garments are overproduced by excessively releasing new designs during each micro season to keep up with the constantly changing trends.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The volume of waste produced in England has remained largely the same for the past five years, presenting fresh questions as to how government, businesses, and households can successfully curb waste levels. However, the picture is more encouraging once the findings are measured in the context of the growth of the economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jeremy Hunt also unveiled a £6 billion extra package of support for initiatives like retrofitting to insulate homes and upgrade heating systems, from 2025 – although it wasn’t clear if this was new money or not. We can’t wait until 2025,” said the local authority network. This is supposedly on top of £6.6

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

This will in turn increase the supply of recycled plastic enabling industry to become more ‘circular’ and meet the forthcoming UK plastic packaging tax obligations. Flexible plastic represented 22% of all UK consumer plastic packaging in 2019 but only 6% was recycled3. Several other major retailers are set to follow suit.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Once collected by Tesco, as much of the material as possible is recycled into new products and packaging. This innovative collaboration is one of the ways that soft plastic returned to stores by our customers will be recycled into new food-grade packaging," said Sarah Bradbury, Tesco's group quality director.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

The targets are currently set at a 15% reduction for 2025 and 37.5% Demand for aluminium in Europe is anticipated to grow to around 18 million tonnes by 2050 – an increase of more than 40% compared to 2018, and this will include significant growth in demand in the automotive, construction and packaging sectors.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Announced today, the investment forms part of a collaboration between Dow and Mura Technology aimed at ramping up capacity to convert as much as 600,000 tonnes a year of waste plastics into stable hydrocarbon products that could be used to manufacture new plastics and other materials by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

. · Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. The first plant to use the technology has begun construction in Teesside, UK, to be operational in 2022 and able to process 80,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year. tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world.[iv]

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Nighttime view of a waste incineration plant in Oberhausen, Germany. John Whitehurst, UK business manager with minerals and lime producer Lhoist, offers predictions on how new recycling and reuse targets will affect the types of waste being produced. The changing shape of waste. The waste is shredded, baled and ready to go.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

A new environmental scoring system for food and drinks packaging is set to launch across select retailers and products this autumn, as part of a government-backed drive to help consumers make more environmentally friendly choices.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

A raft of corporate green packaging goals are looming - how can they be met? Despite that sobering statistic, momentum is building towards 2025 sustainable packaging goals. Here are some key takeaways from three breakout sessions about sustainable packaging goals at Circularity 2021. Most come from brands and retailers.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

Regulation, consumer demand and shareholders are pushing for more recycled textiles. Here's the base-case scenario: 50 per cent of post-consumer household textile waste in the 27 European Union countries and Switzerland is collected, up from today's 30-35 per cent. In the upside case, 80 per cent is collected.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

First, summarize business aspects that consume energy, water and other natural resources, generate waste, impact the environment and contribute to climate change. How much do we waste? Are we composting food waste? Waste : What waste do we produce and where does it come from? motion sensor faucets)?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

However, the demands on the system are changing, and its speed has slowed. The Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) consenting process has served the UK well for more than a decade," they said. The number and complexity of cases coming into the system is increasing.

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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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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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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

From ice cream to shampoo, much of what we sell comes packaged in plastic. And over the last decade serious demands have been made of us to deal with the problem of plastic waste. More than 80 per cent of people worldwide favour products with less plastic packaging, according to an IPSOS poll published last week.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But the support for decarbonisation came alongside a sweeping package of tax increases and spending cuts, including new taxes on electric vehicles, an extended windfall tax on renewables and nuclear power generators as well as oil and gas firms, and confirmation the Overseas Development Aid budget will not be returned to its 0.7

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise. Why is this important now? 

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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. The good news is we've already removed 100 tonnes of plastic packaging from deliveries to our customers - just one example of how we're reducing waste and promoting a circular economy.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2021

How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025. Plastic-free by 2025. And it has a Plastic Working Group, made up of 63 third-party brands such as Method and Seventh Generation, with the aim to develop solutions to plastic waste. . Deonna Anderson. Thu, 04/29/2021 - 01:30.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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. Shooting for 2025, its main goals are: Make sure all plastic packaging is 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable . Of course, the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

The overwhelming majority of MEPs demanded that all forthcoming investments must comply with the Paris Agreement, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and Europe's net zero and biodiversity goals. It also pledged to double the number of charging and alternative refuelling stations by 2025.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 17, 2022

To grow enough corn to meet this demand for one year’s worth of consumption, it would take 180 billion gallons of water. Very few of us are aware of the demand our food consumption places on our agricultural systems, but this is why sustainable agriculture, combined with eco-friendly manufacturing, is so important.

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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. 2021 is sure to bring continued tension between the problem of plastic waste and the problem of plastic production and use.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

According to reports from Euractiv this week , the Commission is considering strengthening the EU's renewable energy target for 2030 as it looks to finalise the package. Study: Climate change made South African floods 'twice as likely'. New consortium aims to deliver Dutch hydrogen hub.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

In a public letter released today addressed to Starbucks employees, customers, and investors, CEO Kevin Johnson said the company will now work towards storing more carbon than it emits, eliminating landfill waste, and providing more clean freshwater than it uses. warming pathway.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Hopes will also be high that ministers and civil servants on Whitehall are now digesting the report's many recommendations ahead of the Treasury's hotly-anticipated economic stimulus package, which is expected to emerge early next month. There is no time to waste. Covid-19 climate impacts have been huge, but may not last.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Industry-backed report calls on EU and UK to introduce a mandate for sustainable aviation fuel from 2025 that ratchets up over time in order to spur demand for greener fuels. per cent of global jet fuel demand, are likely to be "indispensable" to delivering a carbon neutral aviation sector in line with global climate goals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Yes, the demand for a circular economy in the plastics industry is real. Recent research shows that in the last 12 months nearly half of European consumers claim to purchase less products packed in plastic than they used to, and 55 per cent of Spanish consumers made a brand choice (in the last year) specifically for the packaging used.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

All I can say is that if so, then that is how it is meant to sound and to be, because that is what the times demand. Planning rules can trim developers' profit margins, but it is more often market demand that determines the pace of development, campaigners argue.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

A second hydrogen funding round is then also set to open in 2023, the government said, bringing the total green hydrogen production capacity targeted across both rounds to 1GW in operation or construction by the end of 2025. The move forms part of the government's efforts to cut the UK's energy demand by 15 per cent by 2030.

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