Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

The manufacturer of soft drinks including Lucozade and Ribena is planning to use 100 per cent recycled plastic in the production of its 500ml bottles in Great Britain and Ireland by the end of the year, but it has also sent a warning to the industry that it faces ongoing shortages of recycled PET (rPET).

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Household appliance manufacturer Whirlpool Corporation has vowed to achieve net zero emissions across its plants and operations by 2030, arguing that tackling climate change is core to its brand mission to "improve life at home". Kitchen and laundry appliance company announces it will curb emissions generated by products for first time.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 7, 2021

The Barbie Loves the Ocean line includes three fashion dolls, a playset and accessories made from 90% recycled ocean-bound plastic parts sourced within 50 kilometers of waterways in areas that are lacking formal waste collection systems. View post: Mattel reveals new Barbie made from recycled ocean-bound plastic.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Vacuum cleaner made from plastic previously found in old cleaners, computers, and hairdryers forms latest part of tech giant's ongoing mission to introduce more recycled materials into its product line.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

They have a target of reaching net-zero for their operations by 2025 and making their supply chain net-zero by 2030. Developing eco-friendly advertising materials. Digital display screens eliminate the need for paper, card, or plastic posters and banners, which does away with all that potential pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Separated recyclable materials at a facility in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The study said the introduction of mandatory MWS would also help to ensure that plastic and paper packaging recycling targets for 2030 will be consistently met, and contribute between 2.9

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

Every product is made from a minimum of 56 per cent plant-based materials and a minimum of 26 percent bio-circular plastics, with the materials approved by the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification body.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. 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. Plastics Pact.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The site also uses cladding and insulation made from recycled materials, including sheep's wool and washing machines that would have otherwise gone to landfill. "At We welcome the ambition to achieve net zero emissions for all McDonald's restaurants and offices by 2030.".

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Volvo released a statement in September 2021 vowing to take an ethical stance in the name of animals by committing to leather-free materials in its current and future electric cars. The company plans to move to a line of fully electric vehicle production by 2030. “The collaboration with 3.1

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 14, 2021

In a bold move last January, Adidas acknowledged its contribution to plastic waste, noting the waste’s negative impacts on the world’s oceans. Adidas accomplishes this by using recycled materials and PRIMEGREEN technology. But if the fabric contains no virgin plastic, what exactly is it made of?

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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. LG Chem, which provides batteries for many global EV makers, has recently made investments in a number of recycling startups, like Li-Cycle , to facilitate in-house recycling and refurbishment. Plastics are a challenge across the board.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

Creating a circular economy for textiles means shifting to recycled and recyclable materials in order to reduce the amount of land, water and fossil fuels used to produce new clothes. The world produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste every year, nearly equivalent to the weight of the entire human population.

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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. Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder, Stripe; San Francisco.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030. The reason to start recycling in Norway is due to the fact that the country remains years ahead of others in terms of EV adoption, which also means that she will be the first country to experience significant volumes of EV batteries reaching end-of-life.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030. The reason to start recycling in Norway is due to the fact that the country remains years ahead of others in terms of EV adoption, which also means that she will be the first country to experience significant volumes of EV batteries reaching end-of-life.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As a company, Google claims to be carbon neutral since 2007 and has set a goal to be carbon-free by 2030. Carpet made from recycled materials and energy-efficient lighting illuminate the focus on eco-friendly interior design.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Underpinning our 2040 net zero vision is a commitment to cut GHG emissions across our value chain by 30 per cent by 2030, reducing not only our own emissions, but those from our entire supply chain. In packaging, for example, we are investing in innovation to help us use less packaging and increase our use of recycled materials.

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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

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. Where does this leave the businesses embracing circularity in 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. So could such a treaty ever work in the same way for another, interconnected, cross-border environmental crisis facing the planet: plastic pollution?

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

Without urgent, global, comprehensive action to bend the emissions curve before 2030, a 1.5-degrees EV sales would grow aggressively by roughly 25 per cent a year between 2016 and 2030. If fossil fuels were rapidly reduced over the decade to come, McKinsey notes that the rate of deforestation would have to fall by 75 per cent by 2030.

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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

However, if there is no widespread, realistic recycling infrastructure available in at least 60 per cent of communities where the item is sold, it is probably bound for a landfill, and the FTC says you can't call it.recyclable'. Recycled content. Plastic neutral. That's my biggest watch-out for brands," she said. Regenerative.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

The bill is set to enshrine Labor's pledge to cut emissions 43 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030 before reaching net zero emissions by 2050. The charity will then work with local partner DARDLEA to increase the collection and processing of segregated waste for reuse and recycling.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Hans Eric Melin, founder of specialist consultancy Circular Energy Storage, told BusinessGreen there was "no chance" for a UK recycler to rely solely on EV batteries alone before 2030, predicting that used EV battery supply would not reach beyond 100,000 tonnes before the end of the decade. "I

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Nestlé’s circular plans include, by 2025, reducing virgin plastics in packaging by one-third and making all of its packaging reusable and recyclable. We have access to more recycled plastic already, we're able to integrate it into our Stouffer’s business, into our Coffee mate business, into our water business," she said. "So

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In order to invest in the solutions that can solve the plastics crisis, investors need to get to grips with the regulatory and societal pressures shaping the crisis, argues George Harding-Rolls from the Changing Markets Foundation. Responses to the plastic crisis.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

Moreover, all the items have been designed using digital 3D technology, which reduces the need to manufacture samples in the design process further curbing demand for raw materials. The collection is, in theory, a taster of Asos' entire product range if the retailer is to achieve its 2030 sustainability goals.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Ditch the plastic gift cards and give employees experiences they’ll remember instead! Many are unaware of the dangers of improper recycling such as how food residue in containers can actually contaminate whole batches of recycled material and that not all items can be recycled even if they’re made from metal, glass, paper or plastic.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Plastic inhabits the oceans, building up in the guts of seagulls and great white sharks. At the end,” he added, “you have exactly the same quantity of plastic waste.”.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

I’ve been involved in recycling materials for a long time, but seeing it firsthand in that kind of environment was kind of daunting," Boyd said. "I Dell already has plucked some of the low-hanging fruit of closed-loop materials, such as by using reclaimed ocean plastics.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20 Holly Secon Wed, 09/02/2020 – 00:45 The U.S. recycling system had been a mess for far longer — seeing as the country never fully developed the infrastructure to recycle anywhere near the amount of plastic waste it produces.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The EU has unveiled sweeping new plans that could crack down on everything from mini shampoo bottles and disposable coffee cups to excess packaging and virgin plastics. After several years of pandemic-induced stalemate, could a major new front in the war on plastic waste be about to open up? And then, progress appeared to stall.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Apple's big-ticket sustainability goals released this year for 2030 include becoming carbon-neutral and achieving a net-zero impact in all operations. Apple is still aiming to make all of its products and packaging from recycled and renewable materials. The company is more quietly progressing on safer chemistry. Pull Quote.

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Sustainability Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With the spread of Covid-19, the use of single-use plastics is up and is compounded by the use of personal protection equipment (latex gloves, disposable masks, plastic eyewear) which spell bad news for the environment. Sure, the recycling crisis is part and parcel of the recent trade disputes between the U.S.

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