Packaging Plastics Recycling White Paper 
Business Green
MARCH 19, 2021
Jesse Klein explores how some leading businesses are navigating the complex choices that shape efforts to deliver more sustainable packaging. As consumer products companies hunt for more sustainable packaging options, some - notably smaller brands - are turning to aluminum as an alternative to plastic. The big draw?
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 15, 2021
Commissioned by recycling equipment manufacturer TOMRA, and carried out by London-based consultancy for sustainability Eunomia, the report says that a reduction of 2.76 As regard to remaining household waste, only biowaste, paper, textiles, and electrical and electronic equipment should be collected separately. •
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Business Green
MAY 20, 2022
A group of leading US companies are investing in new plans to try and tackle the flexible plastic recycling challenge. It's easy to understand why: This type of single-use plastic is more challenging than others to recycle. There are a few reasons why these types of plastic are difficult to work with.
Ecotech
AUGUST 7, 2019
Recycling has become a normal part of our lives now. Unfortunately, many items that we intended for the recycling center have also ended up in the landfill due to contamination. To ensure that our recycled items are being used to create other materials, we need to keep our recycle bins free from contaminants.
Green Business Bureau
JANUARY 17, 2023
Examples include synthetic polymers (plastics) like polyethylenes (#2), polyethylene terephthalate (#1), polyvinyl chloride (#5), and polystyrene (#6). For instance, polyethylene plastic bags will decompose over 20 years to produce microplastics that remain in the environment. Petroleum-based materials are derived from crude oil.
Business Green
MARCH 11, 2020
Today, just weeks after his promotion to the second most powerful job in the country, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government's Budget for the coming year and beyond, outlining a multi-billion pound package of spending across the green economy, as well as new tax measures covering the energy sector, plastic packaging, and red diesel fuel.
Business Green
MARCH 11, 2020
Sunak also confirmed plans to move ahead with the government's manifesto promise to introduce a new plastics packaging tax, confirming that from April 2022 the government will charge manufacturers and importers £200 per tonne on packaging made of less than 30 per cent recycled plastic. Budget2020.
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