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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics. There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. The company claims this enables waste plastics to be recycled an infinite number of times without degradation of quality.

Plastics 544
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Cool collaboration? Firms showcase SIM card made from recycled refrigerators

Envirotec Magazine

Electrical systems developer Thales and resource recovery firm Veolia have joined forces to create what is seemingly the first eco-designed SIM card made from recycled plastic. The polymer plastic found in high concentrations in waste electrical and electronic equipment is processed at Veolia’s recycling plant in France.

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‘We can’t recycle our way out’

Grist

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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Inside Eastman's moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

Business Green

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. It helped define fast fashion, yet is in the vanguard of circular innovations in apparel. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Bio-recycling gets fashionable with enzymes that will eat your shoes

Business Green

The brands "can use plastics to make fibers, but they don't have a solution for fiber-to-fiber recycling at scale," Emmanuel Ladent, Carbios CEO, said in an interview. The company expects the facility, which will recycle local plastic waste, to begin operations in 2025. Hungry, hungry enzymes.

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Law Firm Sustainability: 6 Steps for Creating an Eco-Friendly Practice

Green Business Bureau

We’ve identified four main environmental challenges the legal industry faces, and we’ve listed these below: Habitual use of consumables such as paper and single-use plastics. This means reducing – if not eliminating – the use of consumables such as single-use plastic and paper.

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