Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Businesses will have to comply with the same collection methods, but by an earlier date – 31 March 2025 (there being no requirement for them to collect garden waste or plastic film). Exemptions will be available to waste operators, allowing them to collect dry recyclables (i.e.,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The Coca-Cola Company said it would begin manufacturing a selection of bottles across its drinks portfolio in the US from 100 per cent recycled plastic (rPET) material in the coming months - excluding bottle caps and labels - with the new packaging to be deployed for its 20oz Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Dasani water, and Smartwater products.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

He was also a Committee Member on Defra’s Advisory Committee on Packaging. Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste welcomes the consultation on the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN). The primary purpose of the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) should be to provide evidence of recycling and monitor progress towards meeting targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Offering brand owners and converters top quality recycled material, suitable for use in highly demanding applications is Borealis’ latest contribution to a more circular economy of plastics. Technical success will set the groundwork for a commercial-scale advanced recycling plant. “At Sorting for recycling. “At

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Consumer goods giant Henkel announces number of changes to formula and packaging for popular Pritt glue sticks in bid to appeal to customers concerned about plastic waste.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

PepsiCo has pledged to stop selling beverage bottles made from virgin plastic across nine European countries by 2022, with the shift to recycled materials for its bottles expected to slash carbon emissions by 40 per cent compared to non-recycled bottles, the company announced yesterday.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

PepsiCo has pledged to stop selling beverage bottles made from virgin plastic across nine EU countries by 2022, with the shift to recycled materials for its bottles expected to slash carbon emissions by 40 per cent compared non-recycled bottles, it announced yesterday.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging. Sustainable packaging is a keystone issue for corporate sustainability. Then the pandemic hit, and the market changed — characterized by higher demand for single-use packages and bags, and lower availability of recycled materials. Used packages need to be recycled.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Investment will allow supermarket chain to meet its aim of recycling as much plastic as it puts out to market by 2025, according to update. It said it was also exploring ways to use the recycled material from the site for store fixtures and fittings.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

PepsiCo has pledged to stop selling beverage bottles made from virgin plastic across nine EU countries by 2022, with the shift to recycled materials for its bottles expected to slash carbon emissions by 40 per cent compared non-recycled bottles, it announced yesterday.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

” But meat companies that raise animals such as poultry, pigs, cattle and other livestock for protein also must take into account something else few widget, gadget or electronics makers need to worry about — how to manage water and materials contaminated by organic, biological waste. For this particular facility, that translated into 8.3

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

percent as of 2022, and plans to achieve further reductions by 2025. In response to Grist’s request for comment, a spokesperson for Coca-Cola listed several of the company’s targets to reduce plastic packaging, increased recycled content, and scale up reusable alternatives. “We

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, a collaboration between industry and government on reducing food and packaging waste through the Courtauld 2025 Agreement had prevented 2.7 The new policy, unveiled in late July as part of the EU's pandemic recovery package, will see a levy of €800/tonne per kilogram of plastic waste introduced on all new products.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

As part of the program, the home furnishings company, widely known for its flat-pack packaging and ready-to-assemble furniture, will be taking back a range of IKEA products: bookcases and shelf units; small tables; chairs and stools without upholstery; and chests of drawers. "I But getting there is a long journey.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Carlsberg, which got into the project more than four years ago, already has shown off two prototypes for beer bottles, while Absolut is preparing a pilot of its first-generation package, for its Absolut Mixt "cooler" product line, in an undeclared market this spring. Some early versions are in the hands of consumers.). Credit: Paboco.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

Aldi has committed to halve the volume of plastic packaging it uses in the UK by 2025, a move it estimates will prevent 74,000 tonnes of plastic packaging from reaching supermarket shelves. All remaining plastic packaging will be recyclable and made of recycled material "wherever possible", the company said.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 30, 2021

Related: 4ocean and Poralu Marine present BeBot, the beach cleaning robot The English government has a firmer plan for a plastic packaging tax, which will go into effect in April 2022. Companies that use plastic with less than 30% recycled content will have to pay a tax of £200 per ton of plastic.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If you're going to use more recycled content, you're going to use alternative materials for packaging, you have to be ready to make the capital investment needed in your infrastructure in your factories. One pocket-size result is new recyclable paper packaging for Smarties candies, popular in the U.K.

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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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In the short term, more immediate goals that will stair step to the larger achievement include earning zero waste to landfill certification in 2022, setting a 2025 deadline to be plastic-free in all packaging and incorporating recyclable or renewable materials into products.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, a collaboration between industry and government on reducing food and packaging waste through the Courtauld 2025 Agreement had prevented 2.7 The new policy, unveiled in late July as part of the EU's pandemic recovery package, will see a levy of €800/tonne per kilogram of plastic waste introduced on all new products.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

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. Textile recycling is just one of the solutions the fashion industry should use to address its waste issues.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. Shooting for 2025, its main goals are: Make sure all plastic packaging is 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable .

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

finds swathes of major snack brands come in hard to recycle packaging with unclear labeling for consumers. Pringles crisps, Cadbury's chocolate and Babybel cheese are among the snack brands named and shamed for wasteful packaging in a new Which? As part of the investigation, the Which?

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

“We’re finding alternate ways to reuse it or we have partners that we’re working with who can reuse the materials or recycle materials in some way. In 2018 , for example, the retailer pledged to having electric vehicles complete the last-mile portion of delivery to its customers by 2025.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

To use a green certification or seal of approval on marketing or packaging, make it clear if your company is materially connected with the group behind it, such as receiving funds from it. Will the product and its package break down completely and 'return to nature' within a year? Recycled content. Plastic neutral.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A large proportion of used cars in the UK get packaged off to third party countries, limiting the number of batteries that will ultimately reach the end of their lives in the UK, he added. Jerry Williams, CEO of battery technology start-up Gigamine, said EV battery manufacturing plants would be a source of battery materials in the near-term.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

By 2025 Greggs said it would be "on its way to achieving carbon neutrality" by powering all its operations with 100 per cent renewable energy - up from 96 per cent today - and ensuring at least a quarter of its 2,000 outlets nationwide feature elements of its "Eco-Shop store of the future design".

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Some of the world's largest corporations promised to quickly slash their use of virgin plastic packaging. Yet the recycled material available to make bottles, bags and boxes has become harder to find and more expensive. Progress was being made toward adopting post-consumer recycled feedstocks.

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AGreenLiving

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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The EAC also reiterates calls for an overhaul and extension for the troubled Green Homes Grant programme , following weeks of negative headlines arising from administrative problems with the scheme and confirmation from the government last week that it is withdrawing over £1bn from the initial budget of the stimulus package.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

Tech giant pledges to deliver carbon neutral operations by 2025 and a net zero emission value chain by 2040. Additionally, the company said 75 per cent of its total annual product and packaging content, by weight, will come from recycled, renewable and/or reused materials, products, and parts by 2030.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 15, 2020

A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging Cheryl Baldwin Mon, 06/15/2020 – 00:00 This article is sponsored by Pure Strategies. Sustainable packaging is a keystone issue for corporate sustainability. When we look ahead, are we on the path to a circular and sustainable system for packaging? Used packages need to be recycled.

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