Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 23, 2023
For example, digital links accessible through a unique product identifier will need to be added to the products themselves rather than outer packaging or tags. If you expect to be affected by this law, get in touch with us today to learn more about our exclusive EPR matrix and rigorous consulting services.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 6, 2024
The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act would dramatically cut the amount and toxicity of plastic garbage New Yorkers throw away by targeting the source. It would reduce plastic packaging in New York by half over the next 12 years, and it would prevent a slew of toxic chemicals from being used in those materials. “The
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Business Green
APRIL 20, 2020
It follows an intervention last month from the US Plastics Industry Association, which wrote to the federal government urging it to "speak out" publicly against efforts in a number of states - including New York and California - to ban single use plastic items such as carrier bags and food packaging.
Grist
DECEMBER 1, 2021
A lot of toxic chemicals – which in the case of Sri Lanka are already in the water – are hydrophobic [repel water], so they gather on the surface of microplastics. “But they act as toxic sponges. Pollutants can be a million times more concentrated on the surface of pellets than in the water,” he says.
Grist
MARCH 22, 2024
They were recently found in samples of plastic food packaging from around the world, and a study published last month linked them to 20 percent the United States’ preterm births. According to one 2022 study , more than 1,000 chemicals — including many EDCs — commonly used in packaging like takeout containers can migrate into food.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The survey showed over a third of smokers (34%) believe it takes less than a year for a cigarette butt to decompose but the truth is it doesn’t ever decompose and can take up to 10 years to start breaking down into microplastics. Cleaning up littered cigarette butts currently costs UK local authorities around £40 million per year2.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 26, 2020
CLOs have to keep up with a rapidly evolving patchwork of state laws governing plastic use and disposal, driven by activists, regulators and consumers. There are special challenges in this COVID-19 era, as single-use plastics, including disposable masks laced with microplastic fibers, flood waste streams and waterways at unprecedented levels.
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