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Growth in UK plastic packaging recycling being shipped abroad, including to non-OECD countries

Envirotec Magazine

This amounts to 155,000 tonnes sent to non-OECD countries, 15,000 of which was to European Union (EU) Member States Bulgaria and Romania, and the remaining sent to a combination of countries in non-EU Europe, Asia and Egypt. Split of plastic packaging exported for recycling by receiving country’s OECD or non-OECD status.

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Europe Goes Big on Green Recovery Package While America Pushes the Status Quo

GreenTechMedia

Europe is crafting a €750 billion recovery package in response to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. That could enable hundreds of billions more for renewables, efficiency, clean public transport and hydrogen. our recent stimulus package sent billions of dollars to debt-laden oil producers.

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Joint venture aims to create Norway’s first dedicated sorting plant to enable plastic packaging circularity

Envirotec Magazine

Technology and recycling equipment firm TOMRA has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian Producer Responsibility Organisation for recycling plastic packaging. The companies will pair up to create a plastic packaging sorting plant located in Norway. Amland, SVP TOMRA Feedstock. “We

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Does plastic have a future in packaging?

Business Green

The idea of only using sustainable packaging – eliminating waste, low carbon footprint, recyclable or compostable - seems easy enough, yet the reality for many businesses is more complex and dependent on the industry they work in. Yet plastic packaging is ubiquitous because it is useful, not to say crucial in many applications.

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Green beans: Heinz heats up sustainable packaging push

Business Green

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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‘Moonshot Moment’: Europe Announces Green Deal

GreenTechMedia

New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled Europe's Green Deal on Wednesday, a package of 50 far-reaching policy ideas that are still missing many key details, calling it a "man on the moon moment" for Europe. This is Europe’s ‘man on the moon moment.’

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'Bold and visionary': MEPs demand 'massive' ?2tr EU green recovery package

Business Green

MEPs have called on the European Commission deliver a "massive" €2tr coronavirus recovery fund next week that prioritises the proposed Green Deal agenda to transform Europe into the world's first net zero continent by 2050.

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