Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

But GB and Ireland arm of Lucozade and Ribena manufacturer warns of shortages and soaring costs of rPET in Europe. Chemical recycling - an alternative to mechanical methods - uses enzymes to break down any PET plastic to its core elements allowing it to be reformed into new food-grade rPET with the same properties as virgin material.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Crisp brand to drive down virgin plastic use with clutch of packaging design innovations. Walkers is to invest £14m in packaging designs it claims will cut 250 tonnes of virgin plastic from its supply chain each year, the crisp brand announced last week.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

Year-long research project led by Systemiq asserts window for action is fast closing, but concludes shift towards net zero plastics system is affordable and achievable. Yoni Shiran, program director and partner at Systemiq, said a new, more climate and planet-friendly plastics system was "within reach but will require bold action".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Nestlé Waters has announced a recycling partnership with Biffa, which will see the waste management firm collect and process recyclable plastic bottles to supply the production of Buxton-branded water in the UK. plastics recycling facility in Seaham, County Durham, which has the capacity to recycle 1.3 billion bottles per year.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

But it is also a significant moment for us at Dow, as a plastics manufacturer, to reflect on what recycling means for us and our future. At Dow, as a leading materials company, we know we have a responsibility to take this challenge seriously and take urgent action - to become carbon neutral and stop plastic going to waste.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

Danone is poised to boost the recycled content of its top selling UK water brands, promising that most Evian plastic bottles will be made from 100 per cent recycled plastic in the UK from next month, as both Evian and Volvic shift towards becoming 'carbon neutral' in 2020.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

Consumer goods giants continue to face growing scrutiny over their reliance on plastics in their packaging, with fresh research published yesterday having found microplastics in products manufactured by almost 90 per cent of the top-selling cosmetics brands. What we do know is that these products, used day-in day-out, contain plastic.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result of this scheme, the wasted heat will instead be distributed to a number of energy centres via a plastic “ambient” network, where it will supply heat pumps that then raise the temperature to Low Temperature Hot Water “LTHW”. ” .” ”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. As the world's largest drinks producer, the Coca-Cola Company's decarbonisation and sustainability efforts have to be supersized.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Hydro Nation Scotland Award – Green Action Trust, based in Shotts, is an environmental regeneration charity and is responsible for the Central Scotland Green Network, the largest green infrastructure project in Europe. It also aims to become Net Zero by 2030. It has also achieved significant reductions in water use and plastic waste.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Compact by Design certifies everyday products that have integrated a more efficient design into their packaging, such Faith in Nature's plastic-free shampoo bars which offer a zero-waste alternative to bottled shampoo, Amazon explained.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The findings are released as Gillette launches a packaging redesign which ditches plastic and embraces recyclable cardboard packaging across its range of refillable razors. Across Europe, it will eliminate 30 million water bottles worth of plastic, it added. million water bottles. million water bottles.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

MWS is an effective method for ensuring that energy-intensive materials are not lost to landfill and energy recovery but can instead be recycled, said the study, which was carried out by Eunomia Research and Consulting and published by Reloop and Zero Waste Europe. MWS could save between 10.2

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Beauty arm of US consumer goods giant estimates that new refillable product line will eliminate need for roughly 300 million virgin plastic shampoo bottles. But this week, the company received plaudits from WWF's head of plastic waste Tom Szaky, who commended the multinational for its new product line.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Like any industry, the solar industry has unique machinery and equipment; specifically, its photovoltaic (PV) cells have silicon, metal, glass and plastic components that are melded together in order to create a functioning solar panel. But these cells have a limited lifespan of about 25-30 years.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

The company said it already has a science based target for 2030 for the European arm of its businesses - Suntory Beverage and Food Europe (SBFE) - but it will now work to slash emissions from its suppliers.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

Toothpaste tubes are notoriously difficult to recycle, as they are made from a variety of materials including plastic and aluminium coating which poses challenges for recycling plants to separate and process them, while just one tube takes an estimated 500 years to fully biodegrade, GSKCH said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Record high carbon prices, Colombian plastic pacts, and floating solar farms all feature in this week's Global Briefing EU carbon allowances set new record of €101 a tonne The EU's carbon market chalked off another major milestone this week, as the price of EU emissions allowances (EUAs) topped €100 a tonne for the first time.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The maker of Andrex, Kleenex, and Huggies has this week unveiled a wide-ranging new sustainability strategy, pledging to halve its environmental footprint by 2030. This plan for 2030 is our most ambitious yet," said Tristram Wilkinson, President for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Kimberly-Clark. "We

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2023

It was only a decade or so ago that scientists first suspected our clothing, increasingly made of synthetic materials like polyester and nylon, might be major contributors to the global plastic problem. Under a microscope, though, they look a lot like plain old plastic. Anja Brandon is an associate director for U.S. This year U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As the one of the leading producers of plastics, how we make our plastics has to be at the centre of our approach as well as ensuring that our products are recyclable, are getting recycled and contain recycled content. By 2030, Dow will reduce its net annual carbon emissions by five million metric tons versus its 2020 baseline.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Tesla profits, green Olympics, Canadian plastic, and all the green business news from around the world this week. Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

The drinks giant said it had more than doubled its science-based climate goal, and was now targeting an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by more than 40 per cent by 2030. There is no vaccine for climate change, but our planet is in crisis," said Silviu Popovici, chief executive for PepsiCo Europe.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

By 2030, that production is expected to top 1,000GWh , growing by nearly a factor of 20. Per Benchmark estimates, $24 billion in recycling investments will be required to meet 2030’s anticipated demand. Even the plastics, Switzer says, are increasingly recycled. Plastics are a challenge across the board.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

C a further 19-23 billion tonnes of annual emissions must be cut by 2030, Climate Action Tracker calculates.[1]. Use again – for example, using recycled metal and plastics to make vehicles and recycling vehicles at the end of their life could save 1.5Gt of emissions and 3.33Gt of materials. “By C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

River freight routes in Europe drying up during the drought this summer is a stark visual reminder of the fragility of our supply chains and the need to build resilience. With commodity and energy prices in flux, businesses are asking suppliers to guarantee prices of products as far ahead as 2030.

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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. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. and globally by 2040. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In May 2021, The Hague District Court in the Netherlands accepted the NGO’s arguments that Dutch law required Shell to align its business with the Paris Agreement objectives under the law’s “duty of care” obligation, and ordered the global oil giant to slash its CO2 emissions 45 percent by 2030. Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2023

ShareAction issues statement calling on Europe's largest chemical companies to ramp up decarbonisation efforts European chemical companies are this morning facing fresh calls to end their reliance on fossil fuels in order to meet climate targets.

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Charged

MAY 7, 2020

“For the BIW, the CO 2 emissions associated with an automotive part made of AHSS are less than half of those of an equivalent aluminum part, and less than a third of a part made from carbon fiber reinforced plastic. In addition, steel is 100 percent recyclable. Source: ArcelorMittal.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

While the Basel Convention criminalized transboundary movement of hazardous waste (of which most electronics are classified) to limit some human health implications of electronics waste streams, plastic waste is another story, only recently having been included in the convention.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Most of the time, plastic. The company was the eighth biggest plastic polluter in 2019, according to the Changing Markets Foundation. But it recently made a commitment to eliminate a substantial chunk of its plastic waste by 2025. . Its plastic strategy focuses on three areas. And what are those items packaged in?

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The strategy also confirms government's plan to move ahead with proposals to ban plastic wet wipes, and restrictions on polyfluoroalkyl substances, sometimes known as "forever chemicals", which are commonly found in firefighting foam, textiles, cleaning products, pains and varnishes. For years a UK ban on plastic wipes has been debated.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2024

An aerial view of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as Plastic Island, which comprises mainly plastic, light metals and organic residues of garbage. A new report attempts to better understand the provenance and impact of plastics in the ocean. Plastic, the report (titled ‘How Much Plastic Is In The Ocean?’)

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

The authors highlight how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has previously recognised the important role climate litigation can play in influencing climate governance, and as such anticipate that litigation may play a "major role" in helping ensure Europe ramps up efforts to meet its emissions goals in the coming years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Paboco evolved out of a joint venture created in April between Swedish paper packaging company BillerudKorsnäs and Austrian plastic packaging producer Alpla, under which they acquired Danish fiber and paper bottle design startup ecoXpac. The Carlsberg designs, for example, use a thin plastic film for the inner barrier.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

In recent years, leading green groups have branded the 21st century drive to ramp up the use of biofuels in transport - set in motion by late 2000s-era EU and US renewable fuels targets - as a " fiasco ", a " scandal " and " Europe's dumbest climate policy ". Regulators and investors have taken note. Regulatory and industry momentum.

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