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Guidance document helps understand regulations for Packaging Export Recovery Notes (PERNs) for plastics

Envirotec Magazine

The Recycling Association has produced guidance on the issuance of Packaging Export Recovery Notes (PERNs) for plastics. This document helps members interpret the regulations for the 2022 accreditation year. The document has been circulated to Members of The Recycling Association.

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Leaked Document Lifts Lid on EU’s Green Deal ‘Recovery’ Package

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The European Union is planning a 15-gigawatt renewable energy tender and auctions for green hydrogen projects as part of a trillion-dollar Green Deal package, according to draft proposals leaked this week. A draft document obtained by Bloomberg and Euractiv lays out a series of planned policies.

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Green day unravelled: Pundits respond to policy package

Envirotec Magazine

An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding. Hydrogen: Not a time to get blue?

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Packaging expert welcomes the CMA Green Claims Code

Envirotec Magazine

Packaging data specialist, ecoveritas , has called on the print and packaging sectors to take ‘a more targeted and action-led’ approach to sustainability, following the publishing of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Green Claims Code.

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Europe’s Thinking Shifts on Supporting Renewables as Part of Green Recovery Package

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The EU’s trillion-euro coronavirus recovery package may not support big renewable energy projects in the way that was expected. trillion) recovery package. Europe's overall recovery package is not as unequivocally green at this stage as many expected. The EU is currently working through the details of a €1.85

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TECO 2030 and Umoe Mandal Submits Fuel Cell High-Speed Vessel Design for Approval in Principle

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Lysaker, Norway– TECO 2030 (OSE: TECO, OTCQX: TECFF, ISIN: NO0010887516) and Umoe Mandal has just delivered the documentation package to the Norwegian Maritime Authority for an approval in principle application.

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Comment: Big changes in the pipeline for Northern Ireland’s waste industry

Envirotec Magazine

One of the most significant consultations was on plans to introduce Extended Producer Responsibility on packaging. The administrator will then pay local authorities and waste collectors for the costs involved in the collection, transport and recycling of packaging waste from households and small businesses.

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