Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

UK-based Mura Technology announces major backing from global chemicals giant to help it develop host of innovative US and European plastic recycling facilities. A spokesperson for Mura Technology said Dow's latest backing announced today amounted to a "multi-million-dollar" investment, but would not disclose the precise sum.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chemically-recycled plastic could be in high demand by the end of this decade, major companies predict. A dozen of the world's largest consumer goods companies, including Mars, PepsiCo, Unilever, and Danone, have joined forces to signal that there is significant and growing demand for chemically recycled plastic from corporates across Europe.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

Food giant announces roll out of new recyclable paperboard multipack sleeves as part of £25m investment in sustainable packaging innovations. The packaging is now available across Heinz Soups and will be launching across all Heinz canned products in the UK in Autumn 2021, the company confirmed. "It

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

This Global Recycling Day (18 March), Robert Lockyer, CEO and founder of Delta Global, a sustainable packaging solutions provider for luxury fashion brands, discusses some of the ways in which he believes the industry is making great headway in terms of recyclability, as well as where more can still be done.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Separated recyclable materials at a facility in Ostrava, Czech Republic. MWS is an effective method for ensuring that energy-intensive materials are not lost to landfill and energy recovery but can instead be recycled, said the study, which was carried out by Eunomia Research and Consulting and published by Reloop and Zero Waste Europe.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

Regulation, consumer demand and shareholders are pushing for more recycled textiles. Imagine if a significant portion of the textiles that cannot be reused in their current form could be recycled. Fashion companies need to set ambitious targets for recycling textiles and designing for circularity.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Viridor has chosen the very latest in sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA Recycling for two of its polymer recycling plants. Meanwhile, a new AUTOSORT® FLAKE unit has been installed at Viridor’s Skelmersdale polymer recycling and reprocessing facility in Lancashire, boosting throughput and elevating the purity of PET flakes.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

Some of the UK's largest consumer goods companies and supermarkets have jointly launched a £1m fund that aims to invest in efforts to make plastic bags, wrappers, firms, pouches, packets and sachets easier for consumers to recycle while also driving down costs for waste management firms.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

The company said it has successfully switched single-use plastic bags to recyclable paper delivery bags and cardboard envelopes in the UK for orders shipped from Amazon's Fulfilment Centres. times lower greenhouse gas emissions than stationary retail - including the returns process.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Crisp brand to drive down virgin plastic use with clutch of packaging design innovations. Walkers is to invest £14m in packaging designs it claims will cut 250 tonnes of virgin plastic from its supply chain each year, the crisp brand announced last week.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Consortium featuring L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe tout major plastic recycling breakthrough. As such, plastic can usually only be recycled a finite number of times, and it is estimated only around nine per cent of all plastic ever made has ever been fully recycled.

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Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

But GB and Ireland arm of Lucozade and Ribena manufacturer warns of shortages and soaring costs of rPET in Europe. Chemical recycling - an alternative to mechanical methods - uses enzymes to break down any PET plastic to its core elements allowing it to be reformed into new food-grade rPET with the same properties as virgin material. "Our

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Commissioned by recycling equipment manufacturer TOMRA, and carried out by London-based consultancy for sustainability Eunomia, the report says that a reduction of 2.76 The rest should remain in a mixed waste stream which can be most efficiently separated into reusable materials for further recycling.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Today we celebrate Global Recycling Day, March 18th. But it is also a significant moment for us at Dow, as a plastics manufacturer, to reflect on what recycling means for us and our future. How plastics are used and then reused or recycled is an essential component. This is genuinely ground-breaking. Minimising resources.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. As the world's largest drinks producer, the Coca-Cola Company's decarbonisation and sustainability efforts have to be supersized.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

Danone is poised to boost the recycled content of its top selling UK water brands, promising that most Evian plastic bottles will be made from 100 per cent recycled plastic in the UK from next month, as both Evian and Volvic shift towards becoming 'carbon neutral' in 2020.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. And most importantly, this is the right deal for Europe, right now.". We did it," hailed European Council President Charles Michel at the conclusion of five days of talks in Brussels. This is a strong deal.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The extension will see $6 million more invested through 2026, initially in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Guatemala. Things like recyclability impediments. Clancy: The pandemic has underscored the fragility of the recycling infrastructure around the world, as well as the food system. The first is reduce plastic use.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities. Goals that are specific, yet ambitious.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The investment brings Macquarie's investments in the energy, waste, solar PV and onshore and offshore wind sectors to more than £1.5bn, according to the firm. The investment is being provided by the bank's infrastructure arm, Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS).

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 12, 2022

When a company invests in that quality and makes the pan from recycled materials, it’s a double win. Each size is made from 100% recycled aluminum. That’s no small investment. However, achieving high quality comes at a cost, especially in a pan that offers Swiss expertise alongside 100% recycled materials.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2020

Online retailer claims focus on energy efficiency, low carbon delivery modes, renewables and packaging has helped cut its climate impact. The improvements were largely driven by investments in energy efficiency, reduced delivery and packaging emissions, and increased use of renewable energy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

From Australia to Canada, the United States to China, across Europe and the Amazon, wildfires are wreaking havoc on the environment, wildlife, human health and infrastructure," the foreword of the report said. Tetra Pak announces global recycling capacity push. EIB and Solas Sustainable Energy Fund team up for energy efficiency push.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

· New HydroPRS process creates raw ingredients for “infinitely recyclable new products” · World-first commercial-scale plant starts construction in Teesside, UK, backed by global partners and UK Government. tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world. iii] The UK alone produces 2.4m

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

Thirty leading politicians, academics, and environmental campaigners have urged governments crafting sweeping Covid-19 stimulus packages to eschew short-term carbon-intensive solutions in favour of those that establish a 'real circular economy'.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Reusable packaging provides untapped payoffs for business. Until the 1980s, glass or cotton bags were the go-to packaging materials for many products, such as milk and flour. Until the 1980s, glass or cotton bags were the go-to packaging materials for many products, such as milk and flour. The case for reusable packaging.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

A leaked version of the European Commission's green recovery plan suggests the bloc will focus on ramping up hydrogen production and expanding renewables capacity, as well renovating Europe's housing stock and decarbonising transport systems, as its attempts to revive the bloc's coronavirus-stricken economy.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

The far-right is a climate-sceptic project, a project that wants to leave Europe's climate ambitions, that wants to destroy windmills.". China debuts new climate investment fund. Spin Master expands US toy recycling programme. The choice today is clear," he said. The EU has also decided to ban Russian coal imports from August.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

The company said it already has a science based target for 2030 for the European arm of its businesses - Suntory Beverage and Food Europe (SBFE) - but it will now work to slash emissions from its suppliers.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

We've been meticulously tracking climate tech investment, deal by deal, since the term ‘climate tech’ emerged. In 2023, a challenging macro environment marked by higher interest rates and a cautious private investment market raised the hurdles for deployment.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Typically, Apple signs contracts (including virtual power-purchase agreements) with renewables developers like Avangrid and sPower, although it occasionally buys projects outright or makes equity investments. gigawatt package of deals last year spanning the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jeremy Hunt also unveiled a £6 billion extra package of support for initiatives like retrofitting to insulate homes and upgrade heating systems, from 2025 – although it wasn’t clear if this was new money or not. The devil will be in the detail for the Government’s climate commitments and investment in infrastructure.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, a collaboration between industry and government on reducing food and packaging waste through the Courtauld 2025 Agreement had prevented 2.7 The new policy, unveiled in late July as part of the EU's pandemic recovery package, will see a levy of €800/tonne per kilogram of plastic waste introduced on all new products.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As the one of the leading producers of plastics, how we make our plastics has to be at the centre of our approach as well as ensuring that our products are recyclable, are getting recycled and contain recycled content. It's fair to say that plastic packaging has a perception challenge. Our commitments.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh. The European wind industry continues to reduce costs through innovation, scale and learning effects.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Partner Content: Dow's Daniella Souza Miranda explains how designing for recyclability, reusing and repurposing can ensure plastic retains its value and helps contribute to a circular economy. At Dow each new packaging project we work on prioritises the concept of design for recyclability.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The critical window for action to transform the plastics system across Europe in order to meet both circular economy and climate goals is narrowing, with a major ramp up in innovation, policy ambition, investment, and corporate cooperation urgently needed over the next five years.

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