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

MAY 16, 2023

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, has released its 2023 Plastics Management and Recycling at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) in the UK report, finding a significant quantity of plastics going unrecycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Plastic resource efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP estimates that 750,000 tonnes of post-consumer plastic packaging is not currently collected for recycling, in its new UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey report.

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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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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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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Recycling Association has warned that waste crime will continue to happen, even if exports of plastics for recycling are banned. MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee have called for the Government to ban exports of recyclable plastics by 2027 and introduce measures to reduce them before then.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Despite record oil price fluctuations, circular plastic strategies prevail. And when crude oil prices fell into negative territory in April, the recycled plastic industry experienced a reckoning. As oil prices fall, recycled plastic initiatives have a new obstacle. Jesse Klein. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 01:45. Circular Economy.

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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

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP has published its 2022 UK Plastic Packaging Sorting & Reprocessing Infrastructure report, which reported that there is a clear bottleneck in the UK’s recycling infrastructure for plastic recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

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.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 28, 2023

Featured: Institutional Impact Institutional investors shrug off ESG backlash to move forward on impact investing. The post The Brief: Pension and insurance funds’ shift to impact, community investment vehicles, sustainable proteins, recycling plastics, debunking ESG myths appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

There are no 'silver bullet' solutions to plastics. Bacardi is calling its initiative "a silver bullet in the fight against plastic pollution.". It’s also worth noting that plastic makes up less than 1 percent of Bacardi’s packaging.) Plastic Waste. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 01:30. Circular Economy. Biomaterials.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Featured: Climate Week NYC Al Gore’s Generation Investment ‘calls a moment’ in the sustainability revolution. The post The Brief: Generation Investment charts sustainability, protest-invest at Climate Week NYC, waste-to-plastic alternatives, standing up to for diversity-focused funds appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 27, 2023

The transition to greener chemicals offers holistic solutions to plastics pollution, climate change and biodiversity, but we need more investments to scale innovation.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 28, 2020

ImpactAlpha, April 28 – Singapore-based Circulate Capital spun off from Closed Loop Partners two years ago to tackle plastic waste in Asia. Five countries are responsible for half of the plastic waste that ends up in oceans worldwide and Circulate founder Rob Kaplan wanted to seize the “opportunity to build new value chains out of.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 20, 2023

We want to hear from you how to make impact investing easier with. The post The Brief: Climate co-investing map, sustainable aquaculture, Dutch impact fund-of-funds, avocado farming in Kenya, circular solutions for plastic appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! ✅ Take our short subscriber survey.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Opportunities to invest in muni bonds. The post The Brief: Catalyzing billions for the SDGs, petit French nukes, plastic-based concrete, carbon reporting for construction, family-office climate investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Agents of Impact Call: Finding hidden impact and risk in municipal bonds.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Every plastic cup, bottle, bag, or packaging that you’ve ever thrown away is in a landfill or in the ocean right now, with the exception of a few that might have made it through the recycling process. But plastic has to go somewhere, and since it’s not biodegradable at all, it doesn’t just simply disappear. Royalty Free Photo.

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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. 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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

Last week at the New York State Capitol, more than 300 advocates joined lawmakers for a rally to urge the passage of a landmark waste reduction bill that proponents say is the best piece of legislation in the country aimed at lessening plastic trash. Thankfully they have not succeeded so far.”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

With less than a year to go until the Plastic Packaging Tax is introduced in the UK, a study by Veolia appears to show that 83% of businesses asked were NOT aware of the tax. The Plastic Packaging Tax is Government policy aiming to directly increase plastic recycling in the UK and cut carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

360 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced in 2018. A group from the University of Pittsburgh explains, and offers a view on why the world must transform plastic use from linear to circular. In 1950, 2 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced globally. Where did it all go?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

million, including the help of PRN funding, the UK’s largest producer of damp-proof membranes is increasing its capacity for recycling ethylene-based plastics by 66 per cent. Mercers, which is based in Bolton, transforms plastic packaging waste into 100 per cent recycled damp-proof membrane. Thanks to an injection of £6.1

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Featured: Overheard at Mission Investors Exchange Upstart Co-Lab’s pipeline of creative economy deals is now an investable impact strategy. The post The Brief: Investing in the creative economy, overheard at Mission Investors Exchange, small-business loans in Colorado, reducing plastic waste in Latin America appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Set to be finalized in early 2022, the GBF’s draft sets out targets for protecting marine and land habitats, reducing pesticides and plastic waste, and increasing investments.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

PET plastic bottles collected at a recycling plant. Specialist PET (polyethylene terephthalate) recycler Enviroo has had its planning application approved for its first plastic recycling facility in the UK. million tonnes of plastic waste created in the UK annually. million tonnes of plastic waste created in the UK annually.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, December 10 — The 150 million tons of plastic in the ocean is growing by approximately eight million tons a year. The post Circulate Capital invests $19 million in four companies reducing plastic waste in India appeared first on Impact Alpha. Singapore-based.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

A Dorset start-up says it is turning plastic waste into building materials, and looking to empower communities in developing countries to do the same. What we’re doing was made possible by an open-source network called Precious Plastic , which has enabled us to use an open-source mould for our first prototype. for every £1 invested. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

z International, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever announce plans to finance and launch £1m Flexible Plastic Fund. Fund designed to drive progress towards household collection of flexible plastic for recycling. The Fund will guarantee a minimum value of £100 per tonne of recycled product to incentivise recyclers to process flexible plastic.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The company's global sustainability director addresses her passion for social innovation, her philosophy for investments and what makes for successful collaboration.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The following are some effective investments to ensure sustainability at home. This is a significant investment, so a little bit of planning will be helpful for this step. Most of the plastic we use ends up in a landfill somewhere where it remains for a long time. Sustainability continues to be an important topic today.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The partnership has created another income source for Haitians and potentially a lower carbon footprint for HP.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

Beer brand said it now recovers more plastic from the environment than it produces, as Waitrose announces expansion of its refillable food range. The milestone comes after the firm commissioned climate solutions provider South Pole to run an extensive audit of the plastic usage of its products and distribution logistics processes.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

The wheels are in motion for a global treaty on plastic pollution – what should financial institutions be doing to seize the opportunity from the changes that will come? asks Kristin Hughes, director of the Global Plastic Action Partnership at the World Economic Forum.

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