GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package. Only 9% of all plastic is recycled and it can take hundreds of years to degrade. Recycling is critical, but the world cannot rely on that alone. Innovations in plant-based materials, including wood fibre and plant-based polymers.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
A map showing the receiving destinations of plastic waste from England for recycling. Material to non-OECD countries More than 26% was sent to non-OECD or developing countries. As such, this material exported for recycling would likely have otherwise gone to landfill or incineration.
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Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 18, 2021
With less than a year to go until the Plastic Packaging Tax is introduced in the UK, a study by Veolia appears to show that 83% of businesses asked were NOT aware of the tax. The Plastic Packaging Tax is Government policy aiming to directly increase plastic recycling in the UK and cut carbon emissions.
Green Business Bureau
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Rocket Industrial helps organizations reduce waste with their innovative packaging solutions. ? of landfill garbage is packaging material of some kind, meaning waste reduction demands a global shift to avoid throwaway solutions, and supporting this shift is the packaging distribution company Rocket Industrial.
Business Green
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Chemically-recycled plastic could be in high demand by the end of this decade, major companies predict. In a letter published this morning, the firms said there was potential demand for at least 800,000 tonnes a year of chemically recycled plastic in Europe by 2030 from 40 firms alone.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 22, 2021
million, including the help of PRN funding, the UK’s largest producer of damp-proof membranes is increasing its capacity for recycling ethylene-based plastics by 66 per cent. Mercers, which is based in Bolton, transforms plastic packaging waste into 100 per cent recycled damp-proof membrane. Thanks to an injection of £6.1
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 24, 2022
Coming into force on April 1st 2022, the tax increases costs for packaging companies who fail to use recycled materials by 20 to 40 percent. “If we’re to stem the tide of plastic pollution, we have to stop the amount of virgin plastic which is being produced.
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