Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Split of plastic packaging exported for recycling by receiving country’s OECD or non-OECD status. Importance of digital waste tracking and reviewing the PRN system Digital Waste Tracking will be a vital policy, albeit one that may not come to fruition until 2025.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2021

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. Firm launches new Galaxy for the Planet sustainability platform in bid to help deliver on tech giant's environmental goals.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. During our conversation, we also discussed Ellis’ long-term CSR priorities, the company’s packaging goals and its partnership with Loop. One of those is reducing plastics in Boots-owned brand packaging, in line with the UK Plastics Pact 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Technology and recycling equipment firm TOMRA has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian Producer Responsibility Organisation for recycling plastic packaging. The companies will pair up to create a plastic packaging sorting plant located in Norway. Amland, SVP TOMRA Feedstock. “We

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 8, 2019

By the year 2025, Unilever will halve the bulk of its non-recycled plastic packaging waste.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Food companies have a dual responsibility when it comes to waste reduction aspirations: optimizing their operations to minimize food waste while reducing the amount of other materials — especially the waste associated with packaging — sent to landfill.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

Supermarket becomes latest retailer to explore the potential for packaging-free groceries. Aldi has today launched a new trial that will see it sell its first packaging-free products at a store in Ulverston, Cumbria.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

billion in financing and is targeting 25 gigawatts of solar by 2025 , the company announced. The funding will be used to boost Lightsource bp's current 20 GW pipeline to 25 GW by 2025. Our industry-leading 25GW by 2025 target and the finance package are further proof that Lightsource bp has left business as usual far behind.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

UK-based cereals company is set to reach 100 per cent recyclable packaging well ahead of 2025 deadline. Ultimately, all our packaging decisions are based on whether they reduce our overall carbon footprint," said John Petre, head of Supply Chain and Technical at Weetabix Food Company.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Supermarket currently uses 120,000 tonnes of plastic packaging each year, but aims to switch to alternative materials and embrace lightweighting and refillable packaging in pursuit of new target.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

The idea of only using sustainable packaging – eliminating waste, low carbon footprint, recyclable or compostable - seems easy enough, yet the reality for many businesses is more complex and dependent on the industry they work in. Yet plastic packaging is ubiquitous because it is useful, not to say crucial in many applications.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2023

The full Extended Producer Responsibility regime for packaging waste is now not expected to be operational until 2025, which would be after next General Election

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It will take $500 million by 2025 to create the recycling system of the future and dramatically increase the collection of post-consumer plastics, according to the Recycling Partnership.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

3M has promised to stop making and using harmful 'forever chemicals' across its product portfolio by the end of 2025, with the manufacturing giant admitting growing regulatory, consumer, and investor concerns over the use of such substances have "increasingly weighed on our business results in recent years".

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire tells French Parliament €7bn support package would require ailing airline to set goal of becoming world's most environmentally-friendly carrier. The government announced late last week that it would offer a €7bn package of state loans and bank loans guaranteed by the state to the ailing airline.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Materials innovation, tests of refillable and reusable products and a 'significant increase' in the proportion of recycled plastic have steered firm closer to 2025 plastic goals, it said. It also hailed "solid progress" towards an aim of achieving "at least" 25 per cent PCR by 2025.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Coca-Cola Company has today unveiled a new reusable packaging target, announcing that it is aiming for at last a quarter of all beverages sold across its portfolio of brands to be sold in refillable and returnable bottles or refillable containers by 2030.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis. Last year, Lidl's total plastic packaging footprint stood at just over 60,000 tonnes, the figures show. Our message is clear.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Materials innovation, tests of refillable and reusable products and a 'significant increase' in the proportion of recycled plastic have steered firm closer to 2025 plastic goals, it said. It also hailed "solid progress" towards an aim of achieving "at least" 25 per cent PCR by 2025.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

WHSmith has become the latest major brand to set its sights on delivering net zero emissions, unveiling a new sustainability action plan that aims to achieve full decarbonisation across the newsagent's operations by 2025.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 6, 2022

Last year was a reckoning for companies racing the clock to meet their 2025 sustainable packaging goals. See the original post here: The 6 sustainable packaging trends we’ll be watching in 2022.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Consumer goods giant pledges to halve its use of virgin plastic and ensure it collects and recycles more plastic packaging than it sells.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

Supermarket said new packaging reduces amount of plastic used by 80 per cent and could reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent Sainsbury's has this morning unveiled new cardboard packaging for all its own-brand liquid laundry detergent, which the supermarket has estimated could save around 22 tonnes of plastic waste ever year.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

The Co-op has announced its own-brand food and drink will be 'carbon neutral' by 2025, as it unveiled a new 10-point climate plan designed to help it achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040. It also confirmed Whitfield's remuneration package would now be linked to the company's performance against its carbon reduction programme.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

which recently announced its 10-year Vision 2030 sustainability plan, is prioritizing initiatives including habitat protection and reimagining its packaging. million , having fully circular packaging by investing $100 million in developing regenerative solutions, and decreasing its greenhouse gas emissions. Natura & Co.,

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

companies, governments and NGOs to collectively meet impactful goals by 2025 that they could not meet on their own. Ashley C Hall, Director of Sustainable Packaging, Walmart. By bringing together diverse stakeholders and driving collaborative action, the U.S. Learn about the Pact's launch, targets, and what comes next. Holly Secon.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 23, 2019

The beer giant is promising to cut emissions by 50 percent and ensure all packaging is reusable, recyclable, compostable or biodegradeable by 2025.

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Charged

JULY 15, 2021

The good news is that New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, just announced an extensive new EV policy package that includes $500 million worth of tax exemptions, rebates and infrastructure investment, along with perks for EV drivers. That’s the bad news.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” “In the last three years of reporting, the UK Plastics Pact has doubled the recycled content in packaging, and driven the significant elimination of unnecessary (84%) and hard to recycle (90%) components in packaging. In practice, not all plastic packaging will be recycled through local authority collections by 2025.

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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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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. McDonald’s commitment aims to eliminate all fluorinated chemicals in all packaging globally by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

In late July, EPR fees for packaging converters, producers, and suppliers were delayed a year , from October 2024 to 2025, with the wider system, including the collection and reporting of packaging data for 2023, remaining a live requirement and due on October 1.

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Charged

MAY 3, 2023

Starting in 2025, global technology company ZF will purchase silicon carbide devices from STMicroelectronics. The components are to be integrated into ZF’s new modular inverter architecture scheduled for series production in 2025. ST is to manufacture the chips at its production fabs in Italy and Singapore.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

US packaging giant Crown Holdings has unveiled a raft of new sustainability initiatives designed to guide its activity over the next decade, including emissions reduction pledges approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative that are aligned with keeping warming below 1.5C.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The trial seeks to meet customers’ appetite for retailers to offer recycling initiatives and improve national recycling rates ahead of the government’s DRS scheme set to come into place in 2025. Through cutting edge technology and end-to-end packaging solutions, this project has delivered on what consumers have been asking for.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The UK could reach a 60 per cent renewable power system by 2025 were it to shift Covid-19 energy sector recovery funds from fossil fuels to green power, report concludes. The report also sketches out what such a 60 per cent renewable power system would look like in the UK. "The

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