Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

GSK Consumer Healthcare has set a goal of producing one billion fully-recyclable toothpaste tubes by 2025, today announcing plans to launch the innovative packaging across a number of its leading dental brands including Sensodyne and Aquafresh. For Sensodyne and Aquafresh, GSKCH has also launched plastic-free packaging.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

As a result, it estimates the growth in demand for electric cars has the potential to provide a £12bn boost in the UK market for batteries, £10bn of increased demand across the power electronics market, and a £2bn boost for electric machines by 2025 alone.

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GreenBiz

JULY 29, 2020

By 2025, Volvo Cars plans to reduce the CO2 footprint of each car it makes by 40 percent. . Three macrotrends: Regulators in Europe and China are tightening emissions rules and driving automakers that sell into those markets to launch zero- and low-emissions vehicles. We have an obligation to get electrification right.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 3, 2020

Far from depressing the market, the response to the COVID-19 outbreak looks set to accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles across Europe. Murray says there are currently 2 million EVs on Europe’s roads at present but this figure is forecast to balloon to 40 million by 2030. Murray expects the U.K.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

3 takeaways from Colgate-Palmolive's 2025 strategy. But the company also owns a lot of other brands that offer other consumer packaged goods such as deodorant (Speed Stick), body soap (Irish Spring) and other household cleaning products (Fabuloso). And what are those items packaged in? Deonna Anderson. Wed, 12/23/2020 - 01:15.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Fleets are often the workhorses that toil behind the scenes: the garbage trucks that pick up your trash before dawn; the long-haul semi-trucks that move goods from the port; the bucket trucks that utilities use to fix power lines and keep your lights on; the delivery vans that drop off your packages and help you stay safe inside your homes.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Compact by Design certifies everyday products that have integrated a more efficient design into their packaging, such Faith in Nature's plastic-free shampoo bars which offer a zero-waste alternative to bottled shampoo, Amazon explained.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

The consumer goods giant announced this morning it had built a prototype for the paper-based bottle for its laundry brand OMO, marketed as Persil in the UK, which it intended to sell in Brazil in early 2022 and Europe "soon after". This … drastic change that can only be achieved through industry-wide collaboration," he said.

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Charged

JUNE 27, 2023

Therefore, hydrogen will only be used in a small segment in Europe, such as for special transport,” Vlaskamp explained, adding that hydrogen or biofuels might be suitable for vehicles carrying extremely heavy loads, such as giant wind turbines.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 4, 2020

gigawatts, according to data from the Wind Europe trade body. The new offshore wind bill was passed on the same day that Germany pushed through its economic stimulus package. Europe will need the support of its two economic powerhouses. Total is aiming for 25 gigawatts of renewable generation capacity by 2025.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

The company already operates hundreds of EVs worldwide, including e-cargo bikes in New York City and Europe. It plans to add 1,800 electric delivery vehicles to its European fleet this year, and 10,000 in India by 2025. Amazon is pursuing a multi-track strategy to electrify its delivery fleet.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

To mitigate the resulting plastic pollution , the Chinese government is set to enact a plastic ban, phasing out the production and use of several single-use plastic items by 2025, thanks to a detailed policy directive and timeline from the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). and North America at 0.9%. Excerpt from:Â

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

The move is the latest in a series of measures to optimise packaging for the products customers order most often, which Amazon said have resulted in it removing the equivalent of two billion shipping boxes in packaging material globally since 2015.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Chipotle is the latest company to spice up its executive pay packages to include social and environmental goals. The trend to link ESG metrics to executive pay is a departure from traditional compensation packages, which have relied almost entirely on financial measures — earnings per share, revenue growth and other factors.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

That's part of the vision for the base-case and upside-case scenarios laid out in a recent report on textile recycling in Europe from the consulting giant McKinsey. For example, Article 11(1) in the Waste Framework Directive states that member states are required to set up separate collections of textiles by 2025," the authors noted.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Owner Treasury Wine Estates reveals it is working with the Carbon Trust to measure the brand's carbon footprint and certify it in Europe. The wine giant revealed yesterday it is working with the Carbon Trust to measure the brand's carbon footprint and certify it in line with the internationally recognised PAS 2050 standard in Europe.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 2, 2022

There’s never been a greater urgency to accelerate and complete the large-scale roll-out of smart meters across Europe, says Tomás Llobet of ESMIG. Europe’s unprecedented price and supply crisis means making smart energy savings and securing affordable energy for consumers will remain a key political priority in 2023.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

The move makes it the only UK juice or smoothie brand using 100 per cent recycled plastic packaging, manufacturer PepsiCo claims. Last year, the firm announced a goal to reduce the amount of virgin plastic used across its beverage portfolio by 35 per cent by 2025.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 19, 2022

“When Europe acts together, it has more clout.” ” So said European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in a press briefing today about the urgent need to end Europe’s dependence on Russian gas while simultaneously ensuring energy security. — Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) May 18, 2022.

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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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Smart Energy International

JUNE 10, 2022

As part of the Fit for 55 package, European parliamentarians have supported revision of CO2 emission performance standards for new vehicles. In other words, by 2035 all new passenger vehicles and vans in Europe would be required to be zero emission, i.e. electric or hydrogen powered. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the second special Enlit Europe 2023 edition, Nimbus and Globy – the new hydrogen and electricity smart meters, a new fast network deployment partnership and digitalising smart secondary substations are on the week’s technology radar. Following adoption in Europe, the next target is to have the solution adopted globally.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Consortium featuring L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe tout major plastic recycling breakthrough. This is a truly transformational innovation that could finally fully close the loop on PET plastic supply globally, so that it never becomes waste.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Speaking at the Net Zero Festival, Tetra Pak's president for Europe and Central Asia Charles Brand detailed how the packaging giant is stepping up efforts to decarbonise its supply chain. Tetra Pak has set a 70 per cent target for the collection and recycling of our packaging by 2025 and a 90 per cent target by 2030," he said.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Should stimulus packages focus on finding the way back to growth by kicking business as usual into overdrive, or could they accelerate the shift that has already started towards a more resilient, low-carbon circular economy? The importance of these strategies notably have been highlighted in the U.S.,

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The soft drink giant said it would package the entire range of PepsiCo brand beverages using plastics recycled from post-consumer packaging known as recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET). We will also look to go further and faster in other European markets where the conditions allow," said PepsiCo Europe CEO Silviu Popovici.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Customers in Europe will be able to buy their shampoo in a 'refill pouch' made from 60 per cent less plastic than a standard brand bottle and, once home, decant its contents into a reusable aluminium bottle, the company explained. It's no longer about if or what we can do, but how quickly we can do it.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

The milestone was welcomed by campaign group Europe Beyond Coal, which stressed that further countries are set to join the growing band of coal power-free nations in the coming years. With Sweden going coal free in the same week as Austria, the downward trajectory of coal in Europe is clear," said campaign director Kathrin Gutmann.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 13, 2020

In Europe, meanwhile, there are early signs of progress on electrifying off-road construction equipment, with electric versions of excavators, loads and dumpers now available from a range of manufacturers including Hitachi, Komatsu and Volvo. And then we’ve got pretty strong drivers in Europe and California.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

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. litre bottle but holds nearly three times the volume.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh. The Spanish government also published an auction schedule for all upcoming auction rounds until 2025.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19 Deonna Anderson Mon, 03/01/2021 – 01:45 Walgreens is a fixture in the United States. ” During our conversation, we also discussed Ellis’ long-term CSR priorities, the company’s packaging goals and its partnership with Loop. About 78 percent of the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Also on the radar are a green financing facility opened by the EBRD in Jordan and the announcement of a regional balancing market to be opened in Latvia by 2025. An adequacy assessment of balancing resources carried out jointly by Baltic TSOs in 2021 indicated a possible risk of a deficit of balancing reserves by 2025.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities. Goals that are specific, yet ambitious.

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