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Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package

GreenBiz

Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package. 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. Innovations in plant-based materials, including wood fibre and plant-based polymers.

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Recycled components and plastic-free packaging: Samsung powers up 2025 sustainability plan

Business Green

All Samsung phones are to feature recycled materials from 2025, the company has pledged as part of a new set of wide-ranging sustainability targets. We believe that everyone has a role to play in providing innovative solutions that protect the planet for generations to come.

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State-of-the-art plant for post-consumer plastic waste sorting and advanced mechanical recycling opens in Germany

Envirotec Magazine

“This plant embodies the principles of the EverMinds platform founded by Borealis, which seeks to innovate plastics circularity through collaboration,” said Lucrèce Foufopoulos, Borealis Executive Vice President Polyolefins, Innovation & Technology and Circular Economy Solutions. Early tests of the material look very promising!”.

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How effective stakeholder engagement shaped Samsonite’s ESG strategy

GreenBiz

In March, Samsonite announced "Our Responsible Journey," a new global sustainability strategy that outlines its commitments across four priority areas: Product Innovation; Carbon Action; Thriving Supply Chain; and Our People, including engagement, development, diversity and inclusion. Goals that are specific, yet ambitious.

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Firms combine expertise to test and validate systems to chemically recycle waste plastics

Envirotec Magazine

grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has been awarded to three firms for an ambitious chemical recycling project that aims to make hard-to-recycle plastic packaging recyclable. UKRI funding for this ground-breaking joint project helps speed up the development of chemical recycling.

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Coca-Cola brings its first 100 per cent recycled plastic bottle to the US

Business Green

Firm plans to begin rolling out 100 per cent recycled plastic bottles for select Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta and Dasani water brands in coming months. The move forms part of the company's goal to triple the amount of post-consumer recycled plastic content in packaging across its product lines by 2025.

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PepsiCo to switch to fully recycled plastic bottles across nine European nations

Business Green

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 need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.