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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Joseph Doherty is managing director of waste management services firm Re-Gen Waste. 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).

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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. The report also notes that raw material consumption dropped between 2013 and the end of 2017.

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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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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

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. The report also notes that raw material consumption dropped between 2013 and the end of 2017.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” The designation indicates that 100 percent of the waste stream at the facility is reused, recycled or incinerated for energy.

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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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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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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

million pieces of plastic waste and counted the number of items contributed by specific companies. percent as of 2022, and plans to achieve further reductions by 2025. It’s worth noting that many of the companies’ plans involve replacing virgin plastic with recycled material.

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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. But getting there is a long journey.".

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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. The public sector needs to expand infrastructure to support textile collection and recycling. That's why the innovations with textile recycling feel necessary.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A small number of influential large companies are creating internal funds to support sustainability goals specific to circular economy initiatives, such as designing out waste and recovering materials from products used internally or sold in the market. The eyes of traditional investors are widening to the landscape as well.

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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

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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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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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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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. percent of all the plastic produced in 2017 eventually got recycled, according to the U.S. Of course, the U.S.

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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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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

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. trillion in 2022 from $3.53

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Bakery chain's first ever sustainability plan sets broad aim to become a 'carbon neutral, zero waste business'. Greggs has today served up its first ever sustainability plan, setting out a menu of pledges to drive down food waste, boost its use of renewable energy, and improve the environmental credentials of its high street outlets.

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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? Less waste than / Less toxic than.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

And in England's automotive heartlands in the West Midlands electric vehicle (EV) recycling facilities are being plotted by waste management giant Veolia and UK battery recycler Technology Minerals. As we get to beyond 2025 towards 2030, the number of end of life EV batteries coming on the market will start to ramp up.".

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Single-use plastics are helping keep people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic, but creating new challenges for governments in dealing with the waste problem. Some of the world's largest corporations promised to quickly slash their use of virgin plastic packaging. It seems an impossible situation.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

With the vast amount of waste that comes from single-use PPE and regular long-term wear, Watson Gloves is focusing on beginning of life and end of life manufacturing initiatives to help divert much of this textile waste by developing gloves using innovative sustainable materials. Operating in most major U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2019

First, by the year 2025, Unilever will halve the bulk of its non-recycled plastic packaging waste. Secondly, the company will accelerate its recycling endeavors by focusing more on collecting and processing waste plastic rather than selling single-use virgin plastics.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With countries set to discuss potential blueprint for a Paris Agreement-style treaty for tackling plastic waste this week, leading experts give their views on what it should look like. If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. But achieving its 2030 target is no easy feat.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

At the same time, Carbios has partnered with PET manufacturer Indorama Ventures to build and operate the world's first commercial-scale bio-recycling plant for PET-based plastic in Lunéville, a commune (or township) in the Meurthe et Moselle region of France. In the traditional recycling world, the solutions are not circular.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Thermomechanical recycling is not recycling,” said Alain Marty, chief science officer at Carbios, a French company that is developing alternatives to conventional recycling. “At billion tons of plastic.

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AGreenLiving

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. and globally by 2040. million acres the 4.4

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AGreenLiving

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. percent of all the plastic produced in 2017 eventually got recycled, according to the U.S. Of course, the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

LEDs are mercury-free (which is hazardous waste), and also 100% more efficient than incandescent bulbs, helping you reduce your carbon footprint. Once more, the Department of Energy in the US estimated that LED lighting could reduce national energy consumption by 29% by 2025. 6: Reduce, reuse and recycle. recycled paper).

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

LEDs are mercury-free (which is hazardous waste), and also 100% more efficient than incandescent bulbs, helping you reduce your carbon footprint. Once more, the Department of Energy in the US estimated that LED lighting could reduce national energy consumption by 29% by 2025. 6: Reduce, reuse and recycle. recycled paper).

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