GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2022

Here's how innovators at Circularity 22 are dealing with the scourge of plastic waste mismanagement.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A new study highlights potential pathways to significantly increase waste collection and plastic recycling rates globally. These countries have plastic recycling rates of up to 10 per cent. Examples of countries include Indonesia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Examples of countries include the UK, India and Turkey.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The Role of Innovation in Changing Behavior Towards a Circular Economy. By 2030 plastic waste is expected to increase by more than 50% to 330 million tons per annum if business continues as usual. Recent figures show $120 billion is lost each year because plastic waste is mismanaged. Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Advanced recycling methods have the potential to vastly increase the amount of plastic that gets recycled into feedstock and new products.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has published the first two in a series of ‘Solution Model’ playbooks, to improve the understanding of the many stakeholders across the plastic value chain about what is possible and what else is needed to drive systems change to end plastic waste in the environment and develop a circular economy for plastics.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2022

They could play an important role during the transition to packaging innovations that don’t lead to plastic pollution.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ensuring Performance and Safety in Recycled Plastics. As companies and consumer brands incorporate recycled plastic content into their products and as part of their circularity goals, product integrity becomes an important consideration. How regulations and brands are driving the use of recycled plastics. Topic include: .

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 23, 2020

In a bid to curb plastic waste pollution, India-based company Rhino Machines has invented a way of using plastic to make construction blocks. The silica plastic blocks (SPBs) are strong enough to build a house and can be useful in reducing world pollution problems.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A new report – “Improving the loops of plastics in electronics” – shares the conclusions from a recent workshop on Waste of Electrical and Electronic equipment (WEEE) plastics, organized by BSEF, the International Bromine Council, during the International Electronics recycling conference (IERC 2022).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Supercritical water can be a solvent for all organic materials including plastics. Its gas-like penetration power makes it a superior medium to decompose mixtures of complex waste plastics into value-added materials, which are feedstock for manufacturing new plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Sunderland City Council has given the go-ahead for a new plant at the Port of Sunderland, creating over 100 permanent jobs and processing plastic waste that is largely not recycled in the UK, according to Norwegian technology firm Quantafuel ASA. Quantafuel says the process reduces C02 emissions by around 70% compared to incineration.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Researchers have demonstrated a novel system for transforming captured carbon and plastic waste into sustainable fuels and other valuable chemicals using solar energy. On the other plastics are converted into useful chemicals using only sunlight. But, if we add plastic waste to the system, the plastic donates electrons to the CO 2.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

A Circular Economy for Plastics: How Companies are Moving from Strategy to Action. As plastic waste continues to threaten the globe, companies are making ambitious commitments and joining with partners to do their part. Common challenges companies face in combating plastic waste, and how to overcome them. taylor flores.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2022

They're not just using recycled cardboard or eliminating plastic foam. As a result, the innovative products rolling off the line at the company are plant based and waste free. Notpla is a packaging solutions company. They're redesigning the very idea of what packaging is and how it functions. That’s a solution like no other.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Viridor says its soon-to-be-opened Avonmouth plastics recycling plant will reprocess over 80,0000 tonnes of plastic, creating recycled raw material ready to be returned to the economy. The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Climate action NGO WRAP published annual updates of its voluntary agreements for the food, plastics and textiles sectors on 1 December. WRAP launched its first voluntary agreement in 2005 and has since expanded its programme to address food and drink, plastic pollution, and fashion and textiles.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Bradford Council has worked with waste plastic road company MacRebur to become the first local authority in the region to specify road surfacing material that contains recycled plastic. Based in Lockerbie, MacRebur has been processing waste plastics otherwise destined for landfill or incineration since 2016.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In a world shifting focus towards more sustainable products, research and development is crucial in order to find viable alternatives to plastic. Innovation can come from surprising sources when it’s flushed out with the proper support.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sponsored: Berry Global prioritizes innovations for circularity to build an attractive portfolio for its customers, while driving growth, jobs and stability.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The world's two biggest producers and consumers of stuff stand to play a pivotal role in creating a circular economy, but they'll both have to get out of their own way.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An international group of scientists has cautioned against reliance on mechanical cleanup devices as a means of addressing the plastic pollution crisis. However, they caution that plastic removal technologies used so far have shown varied efficiency in the amount of waste material they are able to collect, many have not been tested at all.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2023

Sifang Chen, managing science and innovation advisor at Carbon 180, unpacks ocean carbon capture. Jo and Joy Banner, co-founders and co-directors of The Descendants Project, explain why we should "stop giving fossil fuels a lifeline."

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Organisers have confirmed the full conference programme for the Plastics Recycling Show Europe Virtual Event taking place 9-11 December 2020. Fellow panellists include Ton Emans, President of Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and Maria Ciliberti, Vice President at Borealis. Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, CET on 10 December.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. One of those is reducing plastics in Boots-owned brand packaging, in line with the UK Plastics Pact 2025. Ellis: When the Plastics Pact came along, it was formulating and putting in place a series of targets to capitalize upon work that we were already doing.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 25, 2021

Lucas Couto, Senior Industrial Designer at EGGS Design in Norway, is focused on turning plastic pollution into innovative recycled designs. The designer has teamed up with plastic recycling company Precious Plastic to help reveal the potential of plastic waste in the design space.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Now word from the Plastic Health Summit 2021 is that we have nine years to save the world from irreparable plastic-wrought damage. While most of us have been focusing on goals related to decreasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, a subset of scientists have been eying another villain.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A new investigation by NPR and PBS Frontline reveals that for decades, executives in the oil and plastic industries invested millions of U.S. dollars into misleading the public about the recycling of plastics. As a good citizen, you sort your trash, thinking that the plastic will be recycled to reduce pollution.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Microbes across the world and in deep oceans are evolving to eat plastic, according to a new study. The report, published in the journal Microbial Ecology, found over 30,000 enzymes that can degrade over 10 different types of plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

A three-year £10 million large-scale demonstrator project focused on the capture, recovery and recycling of plastic packaging currently lost to landfill and incineration is being led by resource recovery expert Fiberight. Rigid plastics recycler Moulding Solutions will be the key off-take partner for recycling the recovered rigid plastics.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 30, 2021

England has announced a planned ban on polystyrene cups and single-use plastic cutlery and plates. But frustrated activists say the government is moving way too slowly.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Innovative waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies offer a promising solution to this challenge, transforming how urban centers handle waste and generate energy. Waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies represent a critical advancement in this journey, offering innovative methods to convert waste into valuable energy resources.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 12, 2024

Central to their innovation are two cylindrical hydrogen tanks, each pressurized to 700 bar, which are seamlessly integrated into the vehicle’s structure. seconds, coupled with a top speed of 186 mph, positions it at the forefront of clean-energy racing innovation. Supplied by Plastic Omnium, each tank is designed to store 3.9

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Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 30, 2021

A new study has proven once more that plastic recycling is a lie. According to American Chemistry Council data, only 14% of all plastic is recycled. The data further shows that 16% is incinerated and 70% ends up dumped into landfills.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Powerhouse Energy Group PLC (PHE), a firm commercialising syngas and hydrogen production from non-recyclable waste plastic, has unveiled (on 24 May) plans to create a UK based, Global Technology and Innovation Centre (GTIC), which it aims to open in early 2023.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A state-of-the-art facility to allow the recycling of flexible plastics is to open in Glenrothes, Fife. The company behind the project, Yes Recycling, writes: As an experienced recycler, we specialise in hard-to-recycle plastics, including banknotes, hard hats, printed packaging film, and post-industrial and construction waste streams.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 19, 2021

Approximately 50% of all single-use plastic waste originates from just 20 companies, according to a recent study. The study also took a holistic look at the plastics industry supply chain, including those that make polymers and other building blocks for plastic production.

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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. Steve Mahon, CEO at Mura Technology, described Dow's investment as "the latest vote of confidence in out business strategy and our innovative, highly scalable technology". "We

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