Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The proposals in the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) consultation on business waste are anti-competitive and will force successful recycling businesses into administration, The Recycling Association has warned. Business collections are already a mature and successful market that encourages innovation.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. A 2015 study by the UK waste and recycling advisory body Wrap estimated that of the 7.3 tonnes was actually edible.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 228

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The new packaging labels introduced by the On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) organisation. Easier to understand recycling labelling has been welcomed by The Recycling Association. When combined with the OPRL labelling, this will lead to much higher quality recycling.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The biggest brand names and retailers in New England now have more options for obtaining fabric resources. Thanks to a new FABSCRAP building, clothing sellers and designers have a more sustainable, eco-friendly option.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 205

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. Join Tetra Pak in this discussion about ways companies can incorporate more renewable and recyclable content into their packaging to have the lowest impact on nature. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

LanzaTech, a carbon recycling tech company, views addressing those industrial emissions as an opportunity. And in its latest announced partnership with athletic apparel company Lululemon, it’s creating yarn and fabric using recycled carbon emissions. Innovation. That equates to about 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.

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Waste Waste Carbon Fashion 458

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” “In the last three years of reporting, the UK Plastics Pact has doubled the recycled content in packaging, and driven the significant elimination of unnecessary (84%) and hard to recycle (90%) components in packaging. In practice, not all plastic packaging will be recycled through local authority collections by 2025.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. At HelloFresh, we established a three-pronged packaging commitment: avoid, reduce and innovate. In the U.S.,

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Packaging Waste Waste Retail 544

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. Product innovations.

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Fashion Recycling Recycling Waste 130

GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Of the 95 percent of textiles able to be recycled or reused, only 15 percent are recovered from the waste stream. Lizee enables brands and retailers to incorporate circular rental models that help lower the volume of discarded textiles. Innovation. The largest source of textiles in municipal solid waste is discarded clothing.

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Startups Carbon-negative Waste Waste 480

GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions. “We Also, we helped design clothes with natural and monofibers that are recyclable. Holly Secon. Infinity Goods.

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Startups Recycling Recycling Waste 524

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In March, Samsonite announced "Our Responsible Journey," a new global sustainability strategy that outlines its commitments across four priority areas: Product Innovation; Carbon Action; Thriving Supply Chain; and Our People, including engagement, development, diversity and inclusion. Goals that are specific, yet ambitious.

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Carbon-neutral North America Innovation Recycling 461

Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

tonnes of plastic from ending up in landfill over the next year, according to organic baby food retailer Little Freddie. Organic baby food brand Little Freddie has released its first fully recyclable baby food pouch, designed to allow parents to recycle empty baby food pouches at home and reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in landfill.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Packaging 76

Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Morrisons has opened a new store in Essex designed with environmental considerations to the fore, estimating the "innovative, low impact" shop will emit 43 per cent less carbon, produce "almost zero waste", and stock hundreds of "loose" products that require no packaging.

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Innovation Waste Waste Plastics 72

Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

Climate-aware and eco-friendly clothing, homeware, and personal care products form part of major new product line from the tech and retail giant. The new line of products - initially launching today for customers in the US, Canada, and Europe - is being given its own brand store on the online retail giant's website, the company said.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Since the day of the milkman, companies have launched untold schemes to skip recycling for its less energy- and material-intensive cousin: reuse. While using packaging over and over again is no new concept, recent business model innovations have seen a resurgence of reuse-inspired services.

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Packaging Retail Recycling Recycling 241

GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

The initiatives are related to P&G's current sustainability goals introduced in 2018, Ambition 2030, which include a commitment to make its packaging 100 percent recyclable or reusable by 2030. . I think perfection is [figuring] out the technologies to make this so that that bag and tap are also just easy curbside recycling.

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Packaging Plastics Recycling Recycling 293

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

Online retail giant Amazon has taken another step towards curbing plastic waste across its operations, today announcing that it has stopped packing products in single-use plastic delivery bags and envelopes in its UK distribution network. times lower greenhouse gas emissions than stationary retail - including the returns process.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Packaging 71

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Online stores and retailers like Lowe’s also offer special wood orders with no added formaldehyde. Where to purchase reclaimed wood cabinets You can find eco-friendly kitchen cabinets at many stores and online retailers like Etsy and Wayfair. You can check out other retailers like U.S.

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Recycling Recycling Retail Sustainability 195

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Supermarket to carry new labels on own-brand coffee pods in bid to highlight recyclability. Sainsbury's has started labelling its own brand aluminium coffee pods as recyclable, after discovering that contrary to popular belief waste management facilities are typically able to process the small capsules for recycling.

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Recycling Recycling Retail Packaging 42

Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

Online retail had, of course, already been growing before Covid-19 struck at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has significantly accelerated the trend. It also finds that jobs right across the retail sector are growing, and that every direct online retail job requires a further 1.2 indirect jobs in fulfilment and delivery.

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Retail Logistics Fashion Carbon-neutral 48

Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Owner of Waitrose and John Lewis announces plans to support innovative projects that challenge wasteful 'take, make, dispose' model. They will be assessed by an expert independent grant panel, which will consist of circular economy experts, grant making and innovation authorities, and senior representatives from the John Lewis Partnership. ?"Climate

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Innovation Plastics Waste Waste 87

Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Project to create recyclable Heinz Beanz Snap Pots will help put 22 tonnes of plastic back into the circular economy. Fully recyclable Heinz Beanz Snap Pots will soon hit shelves as part of a pioneering trial by the food giant and supermarket Tesco designed to make it easier to process previously hard to recycling plastics.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Packaging 39

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District.

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Incubators Incubators Innovation Startups 98

GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

How cosmetics retailer Lush is making purposeful profit through circularity. But the accelerated growth of the retail industry has come at a cost. How can we tackle reuse and recycle in a way that is both meaningful and impactful? Katrina Shum. Tue, 05/12/2020 - 01:30. But it doesn’t have to be like this.

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Retail Packaging Waste Waste 507

Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

High street fashion retailer's sustainability-linked bond was 7.6 H&M has issued a €500m bond linked to the high street fashion retailer achieving several of its 2025 sustainability targets to ramp up the use of recycled materials and drive down greenhouse gas emissions across its business and supply chain.

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Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Fashion 67

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2022

Baled plastic bottles: introducing EPR will encourage producers to reduce their packaging through meeting the full net costs of packaging management, which will in turn encourage better packaging design and make it easier to recycle. Not only, that, EPR will help bring much needed clarity to the public around what can be recycled.

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Waste 130

GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

But Ulta’s marquee pledge is getting to 50 percent recycled, bio-sourced materials or refillable containers by 2025. . And with 1,264 retail stores across 50 states , Ulta is a large contributor to this issue. And with 1,264 retail stores across 50 states , Ulta is a large contributor to this issue. Courtesy of Loop.

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Packaging Plastics Retail Recycling 441

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Despite a growing e-waste crisis, 45% of young people have never recycled a phone. Only half of the young people surveyed (aged 16-26) trust that electricals get recycled when given to a recycler (51%). The remaining are either unsure (25%) or don’t believe they are recycled (24%).

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The new service is initially launching trials in more than 20 Co-op stores[1] with kiosk-style ‘pods’ intended to make it quick and easy for shoppers to sell their old devices such as phones, tablets, e-readers and smartwatches, which then get repaired, refurbished, reused, or recycled. The electronic waste problem in numbers[4].

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Waste Waste Retail Recycling 130

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Last year, for example, Sephora became the first major cosmetics retailer to broadcast its policy on chemicals. Levi's innovations include its recyclable Wellthread denim line. The innovation puzzle. Glass sees ChemFORWARD’s highest mission as its potential for furthering innovation.

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Plastics Innovation Organic Retail 504

Living Green Technology

JUNE 17, 2018

In case you haven't heard, the US government and Microsoft have succeeded in their quest to take down one Eric Lundgren, a force in the electronics recycling industry. But he believed that since the discs had no retail value and were seized before they were sold, he would not receive any prison time. Did he avoid taxes?

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Recycling Recycling Innovation Waste 43

Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

Food-on-the-go retailer unveils 'shop of the future', with a view to rolling out sustainable solutions across its UK portfolio. Food-on-the-go retailer Greggs has opened an 'eco-shop' in Great Billing, Northampton, which aims to act as a test site for a raft of future in-store sustainability initiatives.

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Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Retail 74

GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

You have retailers in the U.K. We then merged with Alliance UniChem, a European-based retailer and wholesaler. And that means that we have to collaborate with our suppliers and we have to educate our people internally in terms of the circular economy and how we recycle things. with Boots and Walgreens and Duane Reade in the U.S.

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Packaging Plastics Climate change Retail 468

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

I think resale is still quite innovative and continues to morph and change and [there’s] still quite a limited number of brands that are doing it. Here are four lessons about implementing and iterating circular business models from these retailers. It's not really like there's a silver bullet.". during the GreenBiz 21 discussion.

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Retail Innovation Recycling Recycling 370

GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

We are committed to only be using recycled polyester from 2024. By 2025, nine out of 10 adidas articles will be sustainable: Made with recycled materials, made to be remade or made with nature.". If you find an amazing new innovative fiber, share it. This year we will launch the first running shoe that is made to be remade.

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Sustainability Recycling Recycling Climate change 464

GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

Downstream supply chain participants that rarely have a personal stake, such as powerful brands and retailers, hardly encourage prioritization of sustainability upstream. Traditional manufacturers abide by the "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" adage, while the ultimate retailer of the shirt has no direct ties to the manufacturer.

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Technology Fashion Sustainability Energy Monitor 486