GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets. There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: "plastic neutrality." Thanks to the rise in plastics pledges, an emerging and undefined market for plastic offsets is just beginning to take shape. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 02/08/2021 - 01:30.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Researchers from University of California, Riverside, have detailed a method to convert plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal or char that has a whopping surface area of about 400 square meters per gram of mass. The plastic-to-char process was developed at UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Samantha Osborne, Commercial lawyer at national law firm Freeths With the ban on single use plastics now here, businesses must ensure that they understand the regulations and take steps to mitigate the impact the ban might have on their day-to-day activities. All of these have the ‘polluter pays’ concept at their core but is it enough?

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 18, 2021

Companies are jumping aboard the federal packaging and recycling policy train. With new federal bills up for review and debate, and packaging being a bull’s eye, the status of packaging and recycling policy is in flux. Mars, maker of candies and food, has diverse packaging needs. "We Arlene Karidis. Missed Circularity 21?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2023

Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic debris resulting from the breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste. per cent of plastic particles in a column of water, depending on plastic type. Most solutions proposed so far are costly or difficult to scale up. They found that their method (dubbed “bioCap”) trapped from 95.2

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Hamburg-based start-up cirplus has entered into the UK market in a bid to digitalise the plastic and recycling industry. Coming into force on April 1st 2022, the tax increases costs for packaging companies who fail to use recycled materials by 20 to 40 percent. million tons of recycled plastics listed for sale.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2024

Plymouth Marine Laboratory writes Our new study investigates what happens when biodegradable plastics enter the ocean, and whether these increasingly popular alternatives to conventional plastics are safer for marine ecosystems, or whether they come with their own risks. million metric tons in 2023 to almost 5.3

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 23, 2021

Join WCS and Votes for the Planet to discuss the impact of plastic pollution and create your own Plastic Pollution Plan! Plastics are present in virtually every aspect of our lives: at the grocery store, restaurants, online shopping, packaging, and the list goes on. Bring a friend! Event Agenda (PT time).

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

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. A lot of plastic is produced from fossil fuels. The plastic choice. Reducing waste.

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Grist

JANUARY 9, 2024

A paper published Monday used a novel technique to analyze one-liter samples of bottled water for plastic granules, going down to just 50 to 100 nanometers in length — roughly the width of a virus. Then it was a simple matter of counting all the different particles of plastic. Plastic bottles in a supermarket.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis. Last year, Lidl's total plastic packaging footprint stood at just over 60,000 tonnes, the figures show. Our message is clear.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 27, 2020

HP Sets Target to Reduce Single-use Plastic Packaging, Making Progress Toward Diversity Imperative! The post HP Sets Target to Reduce Single-use Plastic Packaging. Sustainable Impact is HP’s commitment to create positive, lasting change for the planet. That’s for its people and our communities.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

· Aluminium packaging recycling body urges caution to avoid unintended consequences of a DRS. · Two thirds of shoppers will switch from buying infinitely recyclable cans to plastic bottles. · When faced with this choice, two thirds of those currently buying cans in multipacks would be likely to switch to the plastic bottles.

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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 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.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Fauna & Flora International argues tougher measures are urgently needed to curb 'entirely preventable' plastic pellet pollution. Plastic pellets, or 'nurdles', are lentil-sized pieces of plastic that are melted together to create almost all plastic items used in consumer products.

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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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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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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The war on plastic pollution continues to gather pace. As Ocean Cleanup engineers battle to recover plastic from the oceans, consumer goods giant Unilever has pledged to halve its use of plastic by 2025 and investor BlackRock has launched a circular economy fund.

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Sustainability Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Many companies are committing to phasing out non-recyclable products from their packaging and distribution chains. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Danone, Dow Chemical, L’Oreal, Marks & Spencer, Mars, PepsiCo, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever have committed to ensuring 70% of plastic packaging is reused and recycled globally.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 3, 2022

Walmart is labeling private label throwaway plastic products and packaging as “recyclable” without any substantiation to support that claim. Greenpeace alleges that Walmart employed unlawful and unfair business practices. The lawsuit was originally filed […].

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 7, 2021

Many people want to do their bit for the environment, and a lot of brands are getting on board with the idea too, especially in regard to the packaging they choose to use. Excessive packaging is a big contributor to environmental issues such as pollution, landfills, and carbon footprints, and a lot of it really is unnecessary.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Social enterprise claims it was worked with 30,000 collectors to reintegrate plastic back into manufacturing supply chains. Plastic pollution and its impact on our oceans is one of the world's most significant challenges," said Plastic Bank founder and CEO David Katz.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 10, 2024

The new paper packet was developed in partnership with Evopak, a manufacturer of sustainable paper based flexible packaging. It uses an innovative polymer, Hydropol, instead of conventional plastic. Consumers can dispose of the new crisp packet in their normal kerbside recycling collection along with their other paper recyclable items.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the biggest culprits when it comes to an industry’s impact is packaging materials and accessories. This has led to a wave of innovative new eco-friendly alternatives from environmentally damaging packaging materials. BIODEGRADABLE PACKAGING PEANUTS. However, this is not an eco-friendly material as it is plastic based.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

A clutch of the world's largest consumer goods companies, including Mars, Nestle, Danone and Unilever, have united behind a set of principles for safe and environmentally responsible chemical recycling of plastic waste, arguing that such methods have a role to play in combatting the global plastics pollution crisis.

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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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Forbes Green Tech

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now, a new report has shed light on how much of the plastic packaging used in those deliveries ends up polluting the marine environment. Amazon shipped some 7 billion parcels last year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Defra confirms it will consult on banning plastic plates and cutlery, as it works towards goal of preventing all avoidable plastic waste by 2042. Environment Secretary George Eustice said there was a compelling environmental case for extending the ban on single use plastics and building on the UK's levy on the use of plastic bags.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

New ban on single-use plastic plates, trays, bowls, cutlery, balloon sticks, and some types of polystyrene cups and food containers to come into effect from October . billion items of single-use cutlery - most of which are plastic - and 721 million single-use plates per year, but only 10 per cent are recycled.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Every year, people around the globe dispose millions’ tons of packaging materials. All of this disposed garbage influences pollution our environment. Plastic wrappings on water bottles play a major role in the process of polluting our earth.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Coca-Cola Company has today unveiled a new reusable packaging target, announcing that it is aiming for at last a quarter of all beverages sold across its portfolio of brands to be sold in refillable and returnable bottles or refillable containers by 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If nations can start working towards a global plastics treaty at the UN Environment Assembly this week, a more positive future for plastic is on the cards, writes Consumer Goods Forum managing director Wai-Chan Chan. Our relationship with plastic needs to change, and fast.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

Artist Maarten Vanden Eynde discusses microplastics and nanoplastics, and the challenge they present with ocean pollution, at a 2017 event, Biotalk (image credit: FotoMediamatic , CC BY-NC 2.0 “We’re looking at developing a filter that can be more efficient at removing these plastics,” Chowdhury said.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

International group of scientists call for new plastics non-proliferation treaty that binds governments to ambitious target to phase out virgin plastic. Scientists are calling for a binding treaty to phase out global production of virgin plastic by 2040.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Although the global economy is increasingly wrapped in plastic, companies of all sizes are dramatically reducing their use of it. Read more from the original source: Rethinking food packaging can dent the plastic pollution crisis.

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