Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Evian water has today unveiled a new recycled plastic bottle in partnership with clean technology company Loop, marking a major step towards its goal of using 100 per cent recycled plastic in all its plastic bottles by 2025. litre bottle but holds nearly three times the volume.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 11, 2023

Single-use plastic packaging is expected to be a US$26 billion global industry this year, with rapid market growth driven by rising spending power in Asia Pacific, according to new analysis.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Consumer brands have gone cold on recycled plastic – now priced higher than virgin – and look likely to miss their recycling targets. Recyclers in Asia are suffering as a result, particularly vulnerable waste pickers.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 2, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 2 – Recycling company Plastics for Change sources landfill- and ocean-bound plastic waste from informal workers through a tech platform designed to ensure fair prices for the collectors. The post Plastics for Change backs India’s informal workers to divert plastic waste appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

The flow of plastic into the environment must be stopped before it’s too late, and a legally-binding global UN treaty backed by business is key to making this happen, writes Unilever's Richard Slater. Consumer goods companies - including Unilever - are big users of plastic. The problem is actually getting worse.

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Eco-Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Asia is well-positioned to play a leading role in advancing the global plastic treaty. Indonesia and India provide good examples of how proactive national action plans can help unlock finance and encourage innovation in the private sector.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Coke says high demand for recycled material in Europe has made it a 'struggle' to source post-consumer content at a 'reasonable' price in Asia. The cost of using pricier recycled plastic will likely be passed on to the consumer, he says.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Chargers and cables consist of various plastics, metals and other materials that do not decompose naturally. Polyvinyl chloride – commonly known as PVC – is a plastic that is often used in chargers and cables. Many standard cable plastics can be recycled too, although some may pose challenges due to the presence of additives.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

billion denizens, China also produces the largest quantity of plastic. In fact, the University of Oxford-based publication Our World In Data (OWID) has documented China’s plastic production rate at 60 million tons per year. Three avenues are currently available for plastic waste disposal: recycling , incinerating or discarding.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 16, 2023

New research into selected geographical regions across Vietnam, for example, finds that the majority of plastic waste is being recycled by informal workers in craft villages. These waste pickers need to be given a voice.

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Eco-Business

MAY 18, 2023

As countries prepare to meet this month to work on the first global agreement to end plastic pollution, the perspectives of South Asia must be heard loud and clear.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 31, 2021

Recently unveiled by SeaCleaners, the Manta hybrid catamaran is designed to combat the oceans’ plastic pollution in a brand new way. According to the designers, led by the company’s founder Yvan Bourgnon, the first mission of the Manta will take place in Southeast Asia.

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Eco-Business

MAY 30, 2023

As talks start this week on a global pact to end plastic trash, informal waste pickers groups from Asia and Africa call to make social and economic benefits for those who earn a living from collecting recyclables to be part of the agenda.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 28, 2019

Southeast Asia is a major contributor to the plastic that is choking the world’s oceans. With nations plagued by poor municipal rubbish collection systems, experts say the private sector needs to speed up efforts to stem the flow of waste.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Award-winning conceptual material designer Shahar Livne collaborated with fashion design company Balenciaga to create a new line of jewelry made from recycled ocean plastic. The company sources plastic materials from all over the world, focusing mainly in Southeast Asia, where it says 60% of the world’s ocean plastic originates.

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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. The system works by enabling customers to scan QR codes on plastic bottles before placing them into the newly designed machines.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 19, 2022

. “Often we send paper, cardboard, plastics and other materials to facilities that are state-of-the-art and often more advanced than those we have in the UK. “Indeed, when we send material into Europe, South-East Asia or elsewhere, it is backhauled on the vehicles and ships that brought the goods to us. .

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 3, 2021

Recycling sector expert Antoine Grange says a tax on plastic — like one rolling out in the EU this month — would have an immediate effect in increasing the volume of recycled material used by brand owners.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Sorted plastic waste ready for shipping and recycling. Indeed, that is coming whether it is the new Shotton paper mill coming in the next few years, the investment being made by companies such as Mura Technology in plastic processing in Teesside and other projects from many other companies.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The facility would process fracked natural gas into methanol, a liquid chemical that can be used as fuel or for manufacturing plastics, and ship the flammable product down the Columbia River for export to Asia.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

MVMT released a minimalist-style wristwatch that is solar powered and features a case, strap and buckle made entirely from reclaimed ocean plastic pollution. Tide starts at the source by training fishermen to collect and properly sort plastic from the waterways of Southeast Asia. of Product and Design Thomas Moran.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The torsional ultrasonic welding procedure called SONIQTWIST® was developed by Telsonic AG in 2006 and quickly established itself as the joining procedure for a great variety of plastics and metals. Even painted plastic parts can be joined firmly and safely without leaving visible indentations.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Eco-Business sits down with Carroll Muffett, head of non-profit Center for International Environmental Law, who tells us why the plastic treaty conference will be more successful than the climate summit, and what it will mean for Asia.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 26, 2021

A Singapore-based copmany is launching a river clean-up system that is designed to clean up some of the dirtiest rivers in Asia.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Marine pollution has deservedly gained greater attention in recent years, most notably through the vexing—and highly visible—issue of plastics. Synthetic chemicals, many hazardous and harmful, are now ubiquitous across the seas—much like plastics—and left untackled, this assault will only get worse.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Solutions to mounting plastic waste in the archipelago require careful consideration of the local context, or they may not work.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

From fighting to keep a province coal-free to paving more sustainable roads using plastic waste, this year’s Sustainability Leadership Youth A-List features youths on the frontlines coming together locally to make a difference globally.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 29, 2021

Former Coty, Luxottica and L'Oréal executive Giovanni Bottazzi is moving from Japan to Singapore to engage companies in Asia to use "social plastic".

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Launched as policymakers lock horns with petrochemicals lobbyists over a treaty to end plastic pollution, the documentary produced by Eco-Business asks why opportunities to solve humanity's waste crisis are being wasted.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. One company hoping to capitalize is Ways2H , which has a thermal process to convert municipal solid waste, medical waste, plastics and sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 18, 2021

2020 was a bad year plastic recycling and ocean pollution. Eco-Business asked Circulate Capital CEO Rob Kaplan how the circular economy can be rebuilt in Asia this year.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

Traditionally, toothpaste tubes are made from a combination of plastic and aluminium, which makes the packaging difficult to recycle. However, the new tubes replace the aluminium layer with a material made mostly of High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE), which is one of the most widely recyclable plastics globally.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A chemical formula billed as an eco solution to plastic waste, pests and livestock nutrition, has been challenged by former business partners to be 'fraudulent' after tests. The solution has been trialed in three countries in the region.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW), a waste-tackling non-profit backed by major oil, gas and chemicals firms, has appointed Pranav Sethaputra from Grow Asia to lead engagement.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From leading the shift to zero-emission transportation networks to advancing solutions to curb plastic waste at. If you’re a regular reader of TheCityFix, you’re no stranger to the vital role that cities play in shaping the future of our planet.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Plastic restrictions are sweeping Asia, but the sustainability chief of a regional food and beverage trade association says such measures are not the most effective solution. The industry cannot do without packaging, says Edwin Seah.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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