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.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Then the pandemic hit, and the market changed — characterized by higher demand for single-use packages and bags, and lower availability of recycled materials. Recycling takes center stage. Reusable solutions are one path of a circular economy, but there is far more effort to advance another circular approach, recycling.

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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. Holly Secon. Indeed, only 8.4

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

If IKEA can't resell an item, the company plans to recycle it or donate it to community organizations. . I think in a dream world, it is that every product that you would buy is coming from recycled materials that are closed-loop in our own supply chain. 24 through Dec. But getting there is a long journey.".

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Charged

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials will supply remanufactured battery cathode material to Panasonic, beginning in 2025, for a new factory the Japanese battery-maker is currently building in Kansas. Part of the demand is expected to be met by recycling, which could reduce the need for new mines.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We are proud to have initiated one of the most advanced mechanical recycling plants when it comes to post-consumer polymer waste. 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.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Simpler Recycling initiative brings clarity on what kinds of waste will be collected and how often (image credit: Peter_Fleming / Shutterstock.com). The Simpler Recycling initiative – previously known as Consistent Collection – was generally welcomed by waste and environmental observers.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Yet the recycled material available to make bottles, bags and boxes has become harder to find and more expensive. Post-consumer recycled plastics look about as budget-friendly as diamonds next to cubic zirconia. Progress was being made toward adopting post-consumer recycled feedstocks. It seems an impossible situation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Leading bottled water brand rolls out new product in recycable cans and recycled plastic bottles. Bottled water brand Evian is to launch its first-ever sparkling water product, which will be available in both recyclable aluminium cans and 100 per cent recycled plastic bottles.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

The world´s biggest marketing agency to be net-zero by 2025. They have a target of reaching net-zero for their operations by 2025 and making their supply chain net-zero by 2030. But there are ways of making sure that the materials used are as environmentally friendly as possible. Most billboard posters cannot be recycled.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

"If we're going to make sure that we're using more recycled content, if we're going to ensure that we're going to reduce carbon emissions, then we need to be tracking that. Also about one year ago, Nestlé launched its $2 billion sustainability fund , to support companies developing innovative packaging and recycling technologies through 2025.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Mobile and media giant halves CO2 by using recycled materials during broadband expansion works in Scotland. The expansion works in Shotts, Scotland, saw the company connect more than 3,000 homes and businesses to its ultrafast gigabit network, which delivers speeds of up to 1,130Mbps.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Online electricals retailer AO has announced it will recycle plastic from old fridges for use in energy saving ventilation products, as part of a new effort to cut down on waste and establish a more circular business model. AO opened its first recycling facility in 2017 and now recycles more than 1.2

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

H&M has issued a €500m bond linked to the high street fashion retailer achieving several of its 2025 sustainability targets to ramp up the use of recycled materials and drive down greenhouse gas emissions across its business and supply chain. High street fashion retailer's sustainability-linked bond was 7.6

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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. This pollution problem is made worse, experts say, by the fact that even the small share of plastic that does get recycled is destined to end up, sooner or later, in the trash heap. billion tons of plastic.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The primary purpose of the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) should be to provide evidence of recycling and monitor progress towards meeting targets. But the PRN is also designed as a funding mechanism to encourage higher recycling levels when there is a risk of the targets not being met. An integrated system.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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.

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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. and globally by 2040. million acres the 4.4

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BusinessGreen reports on the fast-evolving plans to establish a thriving EV battery recycling industry in the UK. Ramping up battery reuse and recycling is increasingly regarded as critical to ensuring climate goals are met in as sustainable and efficient way as possible.

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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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Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling venture founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, came out of stealth mode last year, and announced that it is recycling scrap from Panasonic’s battery cell production at Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada. Today, EVs account for less than 10% of Redwood’s recycling stock.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2024

The company has not stated where the meters have been deployed but the aim is to test the technology in the field during 2024, prior to a widescale rollout across Italy starting in 2025. Another notable feature is the use of recycled materials in the meter, up to 85%, which is being produced by the two Italian companies Bitron and MeteRSit.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

French biotech start-up Carbios is making rapid progress working with some of the world's biggest fashion brands to deliver a new approach to polyester recycling. The consortium aims to develop the industry's first large-scale fiber-to-fiber polyester recycling system, a process that could play a meaningful role in circularity in fashion.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

By 2025, Pandora, the world's largest jewelry brand by volume, will use 100 per cent recycled silver and gold in its products. As it stands, 71 percent of the silver and gold in Pandora jewelry comes from recycled sources. Recycling metals uses fewer resources than mining new metals.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

“What the data is saying is that if the status quo doesn’t change in a huge way — if social norms around the rapid consumption and production of new materials don’t change — we won’t see what we want,” Cowger told Grist. By that date the company also aims to collect and recycle a bottle or can for each one it sells.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

Regulation, consumer demand and shareholders are pushing for more recycled textiles. Imagine if a significant portion of the textiles that cannot be reused in their current form could be recycled. Fashion companies need to set ambitious targets for recycling textiles and designing for circularity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new generation of Pritt Sticks unveiled yesterday boast a potato starch-based glue formula with a higher content of natural ingredients as well as tubes made with a higher ratio of recycled plastic, the consumer goods giant confirmed. All the materials will be fully recyclable once the stick is empty, it added.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

More precautions have meant more PPE, which usually has come in contact with biological matter that causes management challenges for recycling facilities. The designation indicates that 100 percent of the waste stream at the facility is reused, recycled or incinerated for energy. In the U.S., It has 35 of them.) .

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

finds swathes of major snack brands come in hard to recycle packaging with unclear labeling for consumers. investigation today, underscoring the need for the food industry to redouble efforts to make its packaging more easily recyclable for consumers. Natalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at Which?

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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

MAY 26, 2021

We are committed to only be using recycled polyester from 2024. By 2025, nine out of 10 adidas articles will be sustainable: Made with recycled materials, made to be remade or made with nature.". "As part of our new strategy, 'Own the Game,' sustainability will play a key role. percent to 0.07 percent to 0.07

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