Asia Packaging Pollution Waste 
Business Green
JANUARY 24, 2022
Over two billion plastic bottles have been collected and re-integrated into hundreds of leading brands' manufacturing supply chains through a waste collection initiative operated across the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, and Egypt by Plastic Bank, the social enterprise has today announced.
Business Green
JANUARY 11, 2021
Two of the globe's biggest consumer goods firms have come together to create recycling machines that use artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically identify and sort plastic packaging. Plastic has its place, but it should not cause environmental pollution," said Rohit Jawa, Unilever's executive vice president of North Asia. "We
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Business Green
MAY 17, 2021
Maker of Signal, Pepsodent, and Closeup announces plan to switch to recyclable packaging by 2025. Traditionally, toothpaste tubes are made from a combination of plastic and aluminium, which makes the packaging difficult to recycle. As such, the new tubes can be recycled within standard recycling streams, Unilever said.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
In more modern times, support for aquaculture has ebbed and flowed along with concerns about animal health and welfare, worries over the effluent pollution caused by wastewater discharges, and the unintended impacts of production infrastructure such as pipes and pumps on natural ecosystems.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 26, 2021
Mura Technology, a UK-based technology firm, has announced that construction has started on the world’s first commercial-scale plant to use its ground-breaking “hydrothermal” process, which is said to be able to recycle all forms of plastic waste and could provide the raw ingredients for a sustainable circular plastic economy.
Business Green
MARCH 2, 2022
From ice cream to shampoo, much of what we sell comes packaged in plastic. And over the last decade serious demands have been made of us to deal with the problem of plastic waste. More than 80 per cent of people worldwide favour products with less plastic packaging, according to an IPSOS poll published last week.
GreenBiz
MAY 12, 2020
There’s no doubt about it — we are in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis. By nature, cosmetics packaging is small and intricate, made up of many parts that are difficult to clean after use, resulting in the majority of this packaging going directly into landfills. But it doesn’t have to be like this.
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